Cush Jumbo Quotes

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time when I didn't have a single bit of work. Months and months where I was auditioning all the time. I mean, all the time, and nothing was happening.

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down