The truth is, I’ve been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I’m on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
I always say getting my bachelor’s was the single hardest thing I’ve done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.
For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.
The hardest thing was launching ‘OK!’ magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. ‘The Express’ was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees.
The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.
I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I’ve ever done.
Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it’s also the most satisfying thing.
I grew up dreaming of being on Broadway and being able to do that – and ‘Hamilton’ – was awesome, and it was the hardest thing for the first few weeks, and then it was the easiest thing.
To me, cooking is man’s natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they’re making weird sounds.
There’s a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it’s in your pocket. It’s the feeling behind the rhythm… to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.
The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don’t come to fruition and nobody sees them, there’s a part of you that dies a little bit. It’s like, ‘Ah! But I worked so hard!’ But that’s the business.
I think the hardest thing about my life is that I’ve met so many people all over the world who I love, but they’re not friends with each other.
It’s the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.
When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino – they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.
The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn’t.
I’ve been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.
The hardest thing about this industry is not working.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.
The hardest thing when you’re making a zombie movie is, ‘How am I going to kill these zombies? I need a clever way to knock these guys off.’
My worst trait is that I’m an introvert. When I’ve led stuff, the hardest thing for me to overcome has been my natural desire to run and hide. I’m very proud of the fact that I have been able to do that.
Through watching my friends do their makeup, I learned how to properly blend eyeshadow. That’s the hardest thing out of everything to me.
Men and Pilates – it’s like the hardest thing on the planet to them! They’re not used to getting those muscles. Core and butt and stuff – they’re so confused.
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I’d write if I didn’t have to worry about offending.
I was very involved in back of the house, and finding good people is by far the hardest thing. So, when you’re living in a place like New York or San Francisco, where the cost of living is so high, finding great people is very hard. Even finding remotely reliable people.
The hardest thing about ‘Strictly’ is having to sit still for so long; it just about kills me.
The hardest thing to do is to trust people.
Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.
To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.
I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it’s just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people.
The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I’ll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.
But helping to raise a football club from the ashes, and running it as director of football operations, is the hardest thing I’ve ever done by a million miles.
I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It’s the least paid, and we all have these bills that we have to pay.
The hardest thing for me is restraint.
I’m a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That’s when I get into trouble.
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They’d rather take their clothes off.
There’s the hardest thing – when you cannot be as athletic or perform at a level you really want to. Your mind is telling you, but your body is not allowing you.
The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn’t like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one’s life seem disorganized.
I love writing journalism because it’s all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
The hardest thing in life is reinventing yourself and staying at the top of your game, whilst the hardest thing in football is finding that club you want to stay at.
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there’s always that voice in your head that asks if you’re really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you’re going to do it anyway.
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don’t have no down time.
I had a talk with my older son a couple of days ago. I explained to him that I went to a therapist and I found out that I wanted two things very much: I wanted children and I wanted acting. My therapist said to combine this will be very hard. And being a parent is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
The hardest thing on ‘Palo Alto’ was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.
I love doing emotional scenes. As I’ve had a perfect life, I don’t really have much to pull from. But it’s really fun and not that challenging. It’s almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That’s a really hard thing.
The hardest thing to write is sitcom.
Hitting’s the hardest thing to do in sports.
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability… When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.
I was away from my husband for many years when I wasn’t with WWE, and that was the hardest thing.
I always tell people the hardest thing is competing against the guys you see every day because any of my strengths that I like to go to, they see that every day.
In terms of challenges, I think finding the right people to maximize the chances the business will succeed is the hardest thing. You can crunch the numbers any way you want, but at the end of the day, you really need good employees and investors – and they aren’t always easy to find.
I think repetition is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you’ve told a story and now you’re adding more story to the story.
When I became a ‘rock musician,’ I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.
