Hard Quotes

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

It's hard to get laughs when you're new.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.

I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.

It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.

Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

It was very much that feeling of having worked so hard on Da Vinci's for three years without seeing sunlight that, unless the right thing came along, I didn't want to do it.

I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.

If the region truly becomes democratic, an undemocratic bit of earth would remain here. It's hard to imagine that the world, especially the Arab world, would tolerate this.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.

It's hard to win when you always lose.

I never looked at music as a serious ven­ture. There was very little encouragement from my family. I didn't have anybody to entertain, so it was hard to get motivated.

Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.

And now I know it's hard when you don't know what to think

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.

When I am in London, I think my favourite city is London, but when I am in New York, I feel it is New York. It is very hard to choose between the two.

I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.

It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down all that stuff.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!"

Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.

I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.

It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

It's nice when you put in a lot of hard work and you're recognized and a few people appreciate what you've done.

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people. I am inspired by hard work and honesty. And I am inspired by nature.

I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.

I'm not vouching for Putin's character, he seems like a shady guy. Hard to see why he's a threat was.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.