Tough Quotes

It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well.

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

As tough as it sometimes looks on the front end, it's easier to do right than undo wrong.

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

Economic tough times are great times to be investing in the future.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.

I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

I can be tough on actors, but I also let them know early on in our relationship what I expect from them.

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them.

I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

I am tough minded, but not hard hearted.

I'm a New Yorker, so there are some aspects of being a tough woman that I thought I could bring to the role - but it's such a different world as a woman who's like a warrior.

I'm a New Yorker, so I have the sort of tough vein that's naturally bred into me. In general, I'm a nice person, and that seems to surprise people sometimes.

I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

It was a tough film ["Selling Isobel"] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.

Where does it say that we must allow anyone who wants to come to America to come in and become a citizen. I mean, this is a very, very tough thing to discuss.

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.