Quotes About Struggle

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

For the last three years that I have tried, people are laughing at me and saying that I was trying too hard. And my answer is yeah, I really am trying hard.

I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

You are a star only when the public accepts you, and it doesn't matter where you are coming from, and what kind of a launch you are getting - everyone has to begin somewhere.

See, I didn't have a big and huge launch as a star-kid would have.

If you saw me trying to do laundry or something, well, I'm not really equipped to do anything else.

Not every entertainer's living lavish.

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.

It's hard to get a job. There are more lawyers within a five-mile radius of wherever you're sitting than there are Division I jobs.

In wrestling, I'll lay on my back for anybody 1-2-3.

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

A lot of actors go crazy if they're not working, but I guess I'm a little lazy.

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.

For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.

I know I may never emerge as a leading man.

I don't know if any woman is completely happy with the way she leads her life or with the way people treat her.

I am painfully honest, to the point where it often leads to fights. I am passionate.

In our league, it comes right down to the end.

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.

I just lacked discipline over a period of time. I got up to 178 or 179, but it wasn't exactly lean, you know. I was starting to feel kind of fat. Well, I was fat.

We go through those dark times and we need someone to lean on.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.