Quotes About Struggle

I want to fight for the playoffs.

Not being in the playoffs is frustrating.

The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.

We went through a whole lot in Washington, from winning 28, 29 games to going to the second round of the playoffs in two years. That was a tough time and a great time as well. Early, like my first year, it was really tough, because to be honest with you, I didn't want to be there.

I think the playoffs heighten everything, you're fighting the same opponent over and over again.

There are going to be losses. There are going to be bad plays. There are going to be mistakes.

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

It's not been a pleasant life.