Quotes About Struggle

It's such a drag to make a movie.

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

I live a dramatic life, it's just not on TV yet.

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.

It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

I did have some secret abortions myself, which I repented from when I was born again in 1983. I drank the abortion Kool-Aid temporarily because I thought it was the answer.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

If I want to draw more in a particular scene that I think is important, because of time I cannot. That's hard for me. But I've always wanted to be a manga-ka, so I'm doing what I love.

Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.

I'm drawn to the not-so-perfect character.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

I drink to forget I drink.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

There was a time in my life when I drank. I wasn't the best me when I was a drinker.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

Actually, I used to think that it was normal to feel bad, like, Doesn't everybody feel like this? It was only when my drinking really got out of control that people went, 'Troy, you need to see somebody.'