Quotes About Struggle

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

I work pretty hard, and struggle, and things are hard, but the most important thing to remember is that I have beautiful children that I love, and I love them.

I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.

I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.