Hard Quotes

I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health.

When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a director. It's obviously too hard.

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

It's hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad. It's hard to get there sometimes.

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter how hard we try to make it something else.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

I have a nineteen-month old daughter. I totally don't mind devoting time to her. When you have a kid, it's hard to go out to the movies. I really don't know what's going on with comic book movies.

It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.

Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.

For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.

The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.