Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back. It's a lot of work and sacrifice.

With 'Strictly,' I am mentally and physically knackered: everything aches. I knew it would be hard, but I never thought it would be this tough.

I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.

You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

I believe when actors say they can go crazy playing the same role, over and over again.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.

It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].

I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure.

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

Labor is God's education.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.