Struggles Quotes

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(on his struggles as an actor before becoming successful) I lived all over the place. I lived in Hollywood, then I moved. (Matt Damon) and I got money from School Ties (1992), and we blew it all in a couple of months. We made $35,000 or $40,000 each and thought we were rich. And we were shocked later on to find out how much we owed in taxes. We were appalled: $15,000! What? But we rented this house on the beach in Venice and 800 people came and stayed with us and got drunk. Then we ran out of money and had to get an apartment. It was like everything was exciting. So we lived in Glendale and Eagle Rock and we lived in Hollywood, West Hollywood, Venice, by the Hollywood Bowl, all over the place. We`d get thrown out of some places or we`d have to upgrade or downgrade depending on who had money.

- Ben Affleck

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: `not sexy,` `not funny,` `too intense,` desperate.` All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn`t a trace of my true self left. - on the struggles of her early career

- Naomi Watts

"For me, my gift is music, and I would probably play a song for them and let them find something in there that they connect with, because everybody`s struggles are different. It`s easy for someone who`s not going through it to say, `Oh, well just hang in there,` but I think it`s okay to be hurt and crushed and cry and be angry and frustrated - that`s all part of it. I think people stopping you from doing that is not helpful at all. It`s important to rally around people that love you, because you tend to -- I certainly tend to isolate myself away from people so as to not worry them, but the people that love you worry anyway, so, you may as well rally yourself around them and let them be there for you `cause there`s a huge chance that they`ll need you sometime too."

- Keith Urban

I don`t tend to think of these characters as losers (I play). I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don`t fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

- Steve Buscemi

Upon Mary`s death, close friend and fellow CAC (Celebrity Action Council) member Meredith MacRae said, "Mary was not a star on a pedestal. She really listened to these troubled women and would candidly share her own struggles. She recruited dentists for them, threw them baby showers - and never with a reporter or camera crew to witness it. She truly gave of herself, and we honor her by making sure her work continues".

- Mary Frann

It`s hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body. (On her struggles as an actress earlier in her career)

- Meryl Streep

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Pollock said several times that he couldn`t separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

- Ed Harris

I consider my films first and foremost to be dramas about individuals in personal struggles and I consider myself to be a dramatist before I am a political filmmaker. I`m interested in alternative points of view. I think ultimately the problems of the planet are universal and that nationalism is a very destructive force. I also like anarchy in films. My heroes were Buñuel and Godard. Breathless was one of the first pictures I really remember being marked by, because of the speed and energy. They say I`m unsubtle. But we need above all, a theatre that wakes us up: nerves and heart.

- Oliver Stone

I don`t tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don`t fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

- Steve Buscemi

(On Adrianne Curry`s complaints that she did not receive what was promised her as the winner of "America`s Next Top Model" (2003).) I have an invested interest in all the girls. I take Adrianne`s struggles to bed with me at night. Adrianne`s problem was that she went to Europe to try to make it and nobody knew who she was there. So it was like starting over. But after a girl leaves the show it`s really up to her to be aggressive and try to succeed.

- Tyra Banks

Many times I`ve sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

- Christopher Eccleston

It`s a great opportunity for a non-starter to make a traveling team, ... We have a strong safety type kid who struggles to be a starter, but he starts on every special teams unit because he makes plays.

- Dave Murray

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It`s a responsibility.

- Elia Kazan

The battles that count aren`t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that`s where it`s at.

- Jesse Owens

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

- Louis Farrakhan

And today the Negro people watch Africa and Asia and closely follow the liberation struggles of the rising peoples in these lands.

- Paul Robeson

For many years I have so labored and I can say modestly that my name is very much honored all over Africa, in my struggles for their independence.

- Paul Robeson

Electronics today is a series of struggles. It`s satellite versus the iPod, satellite versus high-definition radio. That`s why it`s critical for satellite radio to get a foothold in the next three to five years. If it doesn`t, some other technology will render it obsolete.

- Russ Meyer

I`ve had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn`t a Christian.

- Victoria Jackson

I think being actor is more difficult for men. The very best actors are not afraid of playing with their own femininity and leaving aside power struggles with the director. Because there`s no getting around it: on a film set, it`s the director who has the power. This fact is often more difficult to accept for an actor than for an actress.

- Isabelle Huppert

It`s the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he`s fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

- Mark Rydell

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He`s always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

- Lee Tergesen

You always want to be in there helping your teammates out, ... I`ve had my struggles at the plate this year, but I`ll do whatever I can to help this ballclub win and from there make the necessary adjustments.

- Corey Patterson

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

- Phil Ochs

That first handoff, it was like, whew, the sky`s the limit. At the time, you couldn`t have told me we weren`t looking at 2,000 yards. But things happen. That keeps you humble and keeps you hungry. It lets you know you can`t get the big head. I`d like to think that our struggles last year, being 6-10, made us all better.

- Clinton Portis

His injury hasn`t cleared up and it means he can`t set off for quick runs, it affects his run-up to bowl and he struggles to move between left and right in the field.

- Richard Cox

Hopefully, what comes through is that it`s certainly about much more than eating disorders. It`s about four people battling the challenges of humanity '” the excitement, the successes, the pathos, the struggles with finding love and spirituality and careers that work.

- Eric Schaeffer

My Struggles is a record close to me. It`s about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

- Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott

(Hill suggested the parties) get together and work it out, ... get past these power struggles.

- John Barnett

Other than not making the playoffs, things couldn`t have gone any better. To go through the struggles we did in the first half and being able to persevere and come back and be in the mix and taking that thing all the way down to the wire was great.

- Dave Clark

When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.

- Anurag Kashyap

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

- Alex Lowe

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

- John Moody

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

- Iris Chang

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. `You forget,` said the Devil, with a chuckle, `that I have been evolving too.`

- Agost Benard

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

- Al Hummel

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn`t know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn`t want to know that it is doing it.

- Alan Reiter

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call `sustained incoherence.

- Alan Reiter

As a general phenomenon, I think they`re great, but they suffer from much the same struggles and competition that the proprietary ones did and do.

- Alan Sypert

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

- Alice Paul

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

- Alymer Letterman

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

- Amit Yudan

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

- Andre Manning

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

- Andrea Oakes

The aim is to listen and learn about the struggles, the resistance and rebel movements, support them and bind them together to build a national anti-capitalist, leftist program.

- Ann Marie Dillon

In my job I see a lot of kids from single-parent households. I understand the struggles they have as single parents and just want to be here for them.

- Arthur Holder

We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.

- Babe Paley

Without question, Mayor Kilpatrick and Oakland County Executive Patterson personify the tremendous opportunities and challenges this region faces in the areas of economic development, regionalism and our ongoing struggles with race relations. We look forward to constructive dialogue on these issues that are critical to the region`s progress.

- Barb Schwarz

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

- Ansel Adams