Quotes About Struggle

I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.

My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.

Mv wife opened a gift shop and I had a cleaning plant. We both lost money on them. I guess we'll stick to acting.

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.

As a midfielder at United, I had to pass the ball forward, and yes, it did not always work. It did not always mean putting a chance on a plate for the strikers. It was up to them to get on the ball and score goals. Was it easy? No, but we were playing for United. It was not supposed to be easy.

My parents have never given me anything on a plate.

I had my share of failures at the plate as a MLB player, but I was always pretty confident against left-handed pitching.

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

A lot of people have a misconception about artists, that they're invincible, you know, they're on a different plateau. But I'm just a human being.

I love cheese plates. Though I actually hate cheese plates. Because I can't say no to them.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just couldn't have it immediately. Anything you can just go out and get - like platform shoes - is not going to inspire people as much as something they have to go through a little bit of hell to have.

When I was younger, I was into fashion, but I wasn't always able to afford and have the platform to express myself and do different things that I'm able to do now.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

Nobody said being platinum was easy.

Unfortunately - as I have experienced first-hand, as many artists have - there's a gaping hole between platinum and non-existent. There's no in-between.

There have been numerous times when my career was supposed to be over because of mathematics, you know, age and numbers,' he says. 'How many times can you go platinum? How many times can you rap about the same subject? How many times can you say, 'Oakland?'

If you are an industry kid, the first film is given to you on a platter. However, the pressure and expectations are immense.

Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

We can't always play the perfect game.

I had an addiction to play baseball.