Tough Quotes

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
Olivia Colman

Forget, Mean, Few

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.
Jose Garces

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.
Tyne Daly

Women, Through, Play

That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.
Brande Roderick

Time, Food, Medical

We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.
Doc Watson

Play, Mighty, Audiences

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
Ed Rollins

Politics, Less, Shocks

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
Jo Stafford

Work, Put, Another

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.
Corey Clark

Life, Career, Two

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.
Ray Stevenson

Business, Successful, Yourself

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside... I'm really a shy guy.
Milo Ventimiglia

Guy, Inside, Outside

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Life, Person, Small

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
Greg Bear

Love, Failure, Sad

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.
Evangelos Venizelos

Money, Experience, Important

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
Lou Barletta

Government, America, Getting

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.
Eric Lefkofsky

Family, Experience, Someone

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
Christopher Bond

Change, Morning, Two

Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.
Juan Marichal

Time, Someone, Different

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
Scott Patterson

Music, Time, Trying

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.
Kevin Sorbo

Business, Successful, Through

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.
Kit Harington

Working, Actor, Animal

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.
Dwight Gooden

Give, Nobody, Situations

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.
Kate Mulgrew

Men, Young, Star

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
Alexandra Fuller

Experience, Mother, Nothing

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
Alexandra Fuller

Love, She, Loved

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.
James Douglas

Time, Economic, Greater

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.
Mo Brooks

Leaving, After, State

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
Budd Schulberg

Either, System, Along

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.
Susan Lucci

Age, Business, Confidence

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.
Shannon Lucid

Everything, Tell, Getting

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.
Terrell Davis

Mind, Trying, Keep

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