Quotes About Struggle

I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

Be A Famous Person Is Difficult, But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man.

If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.