Quotes About Struggle

While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

Unfortunately I couldn't play as much as I wanted in Los Angeles, because I was playing behind an All-Star.

Growing up, I didn't really play in a lot of All-Star games.

I was alright as a player. I played for the Socceroos three or four times but I was a battler - hard at it as we say in Aussie terms.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.

I never had an amateur career; I didn't go to college in America; when I came out on tour nobody knew who I was.

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

Everybody comes here because of the American Dream.

I am living the American dream, and everybody is not able to live that dream.

African-American history is American history.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.

In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

My parents came from the south. So their ancestors were actually slaves in this country.

I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.

The world can make you very angry.

I was an angry kid.

I was an angry, angry child at times.