Andrea Riseborough Quotes

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.

I have always faced challenges in my life.

My whole life, I have had to fight.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.

You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.

In life you will always be criticised.

I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."

Life is a series of problems.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.