- Acting Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tough Quotes
On resilience, faith, and getting through tough moments.
These quotes come from people describing genuinely tough situations, an actor admitting he's far gentler than his formidable on-screen character, and someone crediting faith for getting through a nerve-wracking day. See Know quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
- Survive
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in - I can't invent stuff like this. Nearly eighty crooks in Parliament - that's about one crook in twelve. It's worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There, the criminals are only one in fifteen!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Persevering and getting through hardship makes you tough, and at our house we celebrate stitches. As long as we didn't do permanent damage to their spine that's going to have lasting effect, we applaud and celebrate stitches at our house.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
- Nov 07, 2020
We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try to stay as even-keel as possible; obviously, it's always more difficult when you're going through a tough season.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020