Tough Quotes

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

Opinion, Stand, Citizen

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner

Mother, Two, She

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
Liam Neeson

Education, Successful, Game

Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.
Joan Rivers

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor

Marriage, Feelings, Deal

Center is a very tough position to play.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Play, Position, Center

I have fun being sexy and tough at the same time.
Christina Aguilera

Time, Fun, Sexy

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.
Bette Davis

Big, Miserable, Left

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
Paul Ryan

Lead, Issues, Duck

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.
Roger Daltrey

Fight, Learned, Broken

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle Obama

Time, Money, Parents

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.
Jeff Bridges

Change, Time, Available

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Lenny Bruce

School, Write, Used

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
Larry David

Hard, Wonderful, Miserable

It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.
Mark Udall

Until, Water, Value

My mom was tough.
Tiger Woods

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Shel Silverstein

Thinking, Enough, Rough

If you're married you'll have tough times.
Jeff Bridges

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
Danica McKellar

End, Said, Coffee

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

Life, Laugh, Enjoy

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Love, Game, Mean

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.
Angela Kinsey

Time, Best, Mom

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.
Shia LaBeouf

Cool, Proud, Actor

The comic book world is a tough business.
Shia LaBeouf

Business, Book, Comic

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.
Roy Rogers

Job, Steal, Beg

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
LeBron James

Mom, She, Times

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.
Drew Barrymore

Family, Time, Different

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
Julie Andrews

Singing, Broadway, Arena

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
Jeff Bridges

Age, Father, Door

I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough!
Britney Spears

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