Quotes About Struggle

At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

I have cleared the eyeball test and still haven't gotten my just due. That drives me to become more and more successful because of the lack of everything they have been giving me.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

I paid my dues; I certainly did.

They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.

A lot of people have tried to dull my light.

I was a dummy in school.

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

All my life, even as an actor, I felt like I was really trying to be dutiful, which sometimes got in my way of being creative and being an artist.

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

We got a dying world around us.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

Middle America is dying for a voice.

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

Being a caretaker for someone who's dying was really, really hard at 25.

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

There's a lot of dynamics that can really break a human down.

The singing in 'Dynamite,' it wasn't easy because the song is high-pitched.

I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'

You show me a family, I'll show you dysfunction.

Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.

Every family is dysfunctional.