Tough Experience Quotes

Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be thrown into it, where you're going to sink or swim. It's amazing how self-correcting and how clarifying a good, hard, shitty job can be. Because at the end of the day, any profession I've seen anybody in, when you peer behind the curtains of Oh, wouldn't that be a great job? Wow, what an amazing thing, a philanthropic endeavor! it really just comes down to It's a f**king grind.

My first year at Queen's Park, I just wasn't good enough, but that tough period shaped me.

Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.

They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks.

New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.

I actually found 'We're the Millers' one of the toughest, if I'm honest, least fun experiences of my life, which is weird. It was such a huge opportunity for me to work with the people I worked with and I feel grateful to be a part of that, but it kind of messed me up.

Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.

I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough.

It's tough at first. You realize in the NBA, it's not easy. Each and every night, you're playing against that player that was the best high school player, that player that was the best player on his college team.

Let's just say it was damn hard [to make the Hangover]. I've got the bumps and bruises to show for it. It's funny because things that don't even look that bad on screen were still extremely painful.

Dealing with my first pro loss was the toughest adversity of my career.

Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.

I think reality TV is a little tougher for me than I thought it would be.

The games I enjoy most are the ones I finish exhausted, and with knocks, but having played.

If someone has cancer, it's not just them who has cancer - it's everyone around them as well and it's tough.

I've been through a lot in my career, and the failure that I've gone through makes me really appreciate the moments of success much more.