Quotes About Struggle

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

Before my big break in 'MADtv,' I was doing a lot of commercial work.

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

I had done a few commercials here and there, but I was never super lucky in commercials.

I never did commercials. Not that I didn't want to, but because I can't. I am just so bad at it.

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long time to commit to being a writer. Up until then, I had worked one dead-end job after another while writing on the side.

With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

It's hard to balance work-life commitments and sometimes you feel you're not doing anything particularly well.

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.

I was born in a 10x10 room of a chawl, and we shared a common bathroom with other people in the neighbourhood.

We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.

I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.

I do know there is a lot of pain sometimes but you need to deal with it and communicate what you're feeling.

I can communicate what I want to in Tamil, but I can't express myself in the language very well.

I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

I lived in a kind of dream of communism.

I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.