Tough Quotes

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside... I'm really a shy guy.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

My mom was tough.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.