Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has it`s compensations but it also has it`s drawbacks, and I`ve experienced them both.
- Marilyn MonroeLike all professions, acting has terrible drawbacks. It can be fearfully boring, fearfully unglamorous . . . but what is fun about the theatre is that we get our prizes while we are alive to enjoy them. We have the pleasure of the audience`s reaction, we have the applause, we have the publicity, we have the tribute and the honors and whatever it may be. Much more than we probably deserve.
- John GielgudThis idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
- Allen LeeIt is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
- Andreas SchurigAny change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett