I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.
If you’re going to be in national politics you have to maintain a thick skin.
If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.
When I'm angry I'm an incredibly tough person, because I don't get angry easily.
When it comes to R&B singers, people think of soft men and technically I am not a soft man, not your typically R&B cat, so with a song like 'Ice Box' I wanted to be the voice for others.
Dad's such a tough guy.
People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.
I think Korra, I later realized she was inspired by my sister, who is pretty tough.
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
I'll always be the baby in the family. I'm the youngest sister, but growing up with so many boys, it makes you tough. You get teased. There's no tiptoeing around each other. You say it the way it is; you're honest.
If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.
Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy.
When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.
Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me.
I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
I have motor oil running through my veins.
The Vixen character is not quite me. A part of that is putting up this huge front of being strong, impenetrable, really tough and a little bit condescending.
I have a tough personality but then have a very soft side to me. I'm kind of a tomboy, but I throw it together with girly pieces.
By the physicality alone it was evident that we have one person [who] is incredibly smart, incredibly tough, and able to deal with him in a very, very calm and intelligent manner. And [Donald Trump] thought he was on The Jerry Springer Show.
I'm kind of harsher than most people.
Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.
My father was a Marine who fought in the Pacific in WW II. He was a very tough guy, but after the war, he lived his life in a quiet and reserved manner because he had nothing to prove. I know now that he internalized his war experience.
I'm a fighter and always have been.
My father was tough. At least, he thought so, and I guess I have a lot of his traits.
