Quotes About Struggle

The essence to me of all good drama is argument.

Sometimes I can really agonize over a creative project and forget that it's essentially professional play, you know?

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

You don't get paid much until you establish yourself in cinema.

I don't ever want to be an established actor as I don't want this struggle to end.

I have auditioned for a lot of films and at the final stage, I have been told that an established actor is doing the film. This has happened to me a lot of time.

My heart goes out to anyone suffering a loss... be that physical, emotional, or financial, etc.

I tried to play the etiquette game - the respect game - for too long, and it didn't work out for me.

A loss is horrible, and it's even worse in the UFC.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

The whole ridiculousness of black Hollywood - there is no black Hollywood. It's every man for himself.

No one can be their best every night.

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

It's tough at first. You realize in the NBA, it's not easy. Each and every night, you're playing against that player that was the best high school player, that player that was the best player on his college team.

I base a lot off the team's success, and when the team's not playing well, you're getting your head beat in pretty much every night, it's tough to try and enjoy what you're doing.

I want to make big movies - but I don't want to have to die a little death every single time I do. Until I meet the people or the studio or the business people who will let me do things a little bit more the way that I need to do them, I probably shouldn't be making big studio movies.

Every time I've ever run, I've been outspent - every single time.

There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.

Artists are like everybody else.

I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.

We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.

You can't expect not to face obstacles in life. When people meet, their different energies conflict. Where there is no energy, there is no conflict and wher there is no conflict, there is no creation. Conflict is the source of creation. One needs to know how to powerfully embrace the tension that arises when opposing energies meet, when there's conflict and struggle.

A peaceful life doesn't mean one that has no conflict or struggle.just quietly being alone isn't a peaceful life. There are instances when that kind of life is a dead one that's just pretending to be peaceful. A life that avoids conflict never changes.

ordinary situation. Such people may have a relatively low health score. Being unhealthy, though, does not mean that they can't have happiness or peace. A 61-year-old Japanese woman I know, Yahata Chieko, has suffered with a trembling body due to early-onset Parkinson's Syndrome. She was