Quotes About Struggle

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.

I'm sorry that the family I was given has created so much chaos in the family I've chosen.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.

Mama, why do I always fall for the crazy ones?

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

I have a family to feed.