Tough Quotes

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

Life is supposed to get tough.

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

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

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

It's tough never being right.

They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

Last year was a tough decision for me, to end my season so short. But it was the right decision for me, because right now I feel great. I can go out here and sprint full speed right now, but I'm just going to pace myself for April 5.

It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.