Quotes About Struggle

My dad was working in the street and my mum was working every day as a cleaner. My life was like that.

I'd just come out of drama school, didn't get anything, had to move back in with my parents and do a night-time cleaning job.

I have a problem getting all my laundry done, cleaning up and doing all of the normal daily things that a grownup should do.

When I got cut from Cleveland, they weren't one of the best teams in the NBA at the time, so I had some doubts. I didn't think I was going to get back into the league. I wasn't sure it was going to happen for me.

Since I was in Cleveland, I've gone through a lot of different things.

Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

When it does not click offensively, it is very easy to get down defensively.

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

When I was doing larger than life roles in action entertainers they weren't clicking.

I remember being 32 years old and feeling great, better than ever physically. Then at 33, I tore my shoulder and was out for eight months, and it was like I fell off a cliff. I was never the same.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

I think part of my business problems stemmed from a feeling that I had to be more than a good climber, that I had to do something more 'meaningful.' And that may come from my father.

No matter how hard something gets, keep diving in and work harder. Don't stop. Keep climbing.

I have a very close relationship with God. I even fight with Him at times.

Broadway is a closed ecosystem.

Play in Ligue 1 is very closed, very aggressive.

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.

People want people to do well. You can get focused on the bitter side of it, like, 'Everybody wants you to fail. Everybody's keeping the door closed to you,' but that's not true at all. Everybody's kind of in the same boat.

Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors - that's life.