Difficult Quotes

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

This is really a difficult time to be in films.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.