Tough Quotes

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.

I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.

In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.