Quotes About Struggle

When you're at the bottom, everybody is taking shots at you. It's up to you to stay with it and fight through it.

Sometimes you get nervous because you cannot make shots and then you rush your shot and then you take bad shots and then you get even more nervous.

Sometimes it's hard to be aggressive in looking for your shot if shots aren't going in.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

The whole nation thinks I should be winning, winning, winning all the time and that's a lot to take on my shoulders.

Sometimes when you're not getting what you want in this game you have to shout a bit and throw a bit of a tantrum.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

People who go into show business are screwed up.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

I have to work hard to show people that I'm more than what they see physically; that I'm talented, and that I care and have empathy for people.

I know my talent when it comes to acting. But will I get the opportunity to showcase? That fear seeps in when an actor's film fail back-to-back.

People seldom get the right platform or direction. I have seen a lot of people who did not get the right place to showcase their talent.

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

Black women's lives have never been shown any value in America.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

I am always running away from something.

Living, it's awful for me.

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

I was an awful singer when I was younger.

When I was young, my dad had skin cancer, which was awful.

Chemo is awful!