Quotes About Struggle

I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.

My inbox is the enemy.

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

My biggest enemy has been my surgeries.

My biggest enemy has been my body.

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

In England, people don't like me.

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

Karen Carpenter

I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist.

I'd rather say that had the going not been tough, perhaps it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.

It's been a successful and enjoyable career for most of the time. I've lived the dream and done everything in boxing but sometimes it feels like I don't get the credit I deserve.

I enjoyed my 20s - they were torturous and beautiful. I learned so much about myself and about life and about the nature of people.

At the start, when I got to nearly 12 years old, I actually nearly gave up football. I wasn't enjoying it.

I'm enjoying every last thing fighting has brought me.

For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money.

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.