Chaos is always losing, but never defeated
Survival is not just a physical thing. It's a constant mental affair. So, I kind of really draw a lot of power from that word.
Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that's just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.
I feel like a repair man behind a dyke. No sooner do I plug one leak, than another springs.
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
The grind never ends.
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.
Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.
I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.
Bollywood is a tough place to be in and survival isn't easy.
Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve
Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.
Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.
Fame is a constant effort.
In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.
I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.
I am not a woman on Monday, an immigrant on Tuesday, a worker on Wednesday, and a mom on Thursday, I am all of those things all of the time, and I am going to fight for all of those things all of the time.
Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.
She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.
Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops
