Tough Quotes

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.

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.

It's tough being me.

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.

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.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.