Top 365 Rough Quotes

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang – we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

I was one of those guys that really had to fight to make it in this league. Early on, I really had to do whatever it took, whether it be fight, rough people up, to make the team. I looked at it as it’s either me or them – and it was going to be me.

It’s important to see the work of as many directors as possible but you must not become self-conscious. You have to accept that your first attempts are going to be quite rough compared to the finished works of great masters.

I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn’t have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate only every other day. I looked rough and felt very run down.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Friends are the best to turn to when you’re having a rough day.

It’s almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn’t realize that you’d work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it’s a rough business.

I was re-watching ‘E.T.’ recently, and that scene where they’re all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff together, it’s such an amazing tone, it’s so rough, and nobody’s really talking about anything, and it feels like you’re in that room with them.

It was rough growing up but it was best for me, it’s what made Shannon Briggs, it’s who I am.

Never been a successful audition, not even so much as a callback, when it comes to putting me in a role of being rough.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

Whenever you see someone who’s having a rough day, it’s one thing to ask if they’re okay, because most people would just walk by. That can be life-changing to that person who’s going through whatever they’re going through. I’m that kind of person, so that’s been my training for acting: just caring about people.

I am very spoilt and want my travel to be smooth and peaceful. I don’t like to rough it out, and I certainly do not fancy the idea of backpacking.

The hardest is foods I am not familiar with. Gyros, I lost that one; I don’t like tzatziki sauce very much. I did kimchi in Korea, which was rough: fermented cabbage and spicy.

Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.

We had some rough times in TNA. We had some pay issues, and this and that, they were some other issues. But at that time, we were working harder than we ever worked. Even though, you know, we were being paid late and all, we worked harder than we worked before.

My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I’ve broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; ‘Dad I love you,’ that is what means the most to me.

Most corn is combine harvested, which means it’s picked and shelled in the field – but that’s rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.

In my essay for ‘The Good Immigrant,’ I write about how concerns about race and immigration crept up on me a bit because of how I grew up and my background – I was quite fortunate, really; I never got the rough end of the stick with a lot of that kind of stuff.

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

Going through rough times will only make me and my team stronger.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there’s always something beautiful that you can find.

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don’t fight that much now. I don’t look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you’re a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything… I mean it’s your mother, so I lost my mind.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That’s how it is.

I think it’s important for bands to rough it. Whether you’re in a van or a bus, it’s still tough. You still have to stand in a two hour catering line with flies everywhere in the heat, and you still have to lug your gear.

The world doesn’t revolve around me anymore. Now it’s all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it’s the truth.

I had a rough year, my first year at Man City, a big club for a big transfer fee. There was a lot of talk, a lot of pressure, and I didn’t think I was being spoken about in a fair manner.

It hasn’t been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it’s been exciting and good and I’m thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren’t like producers, and can’t hear the diamond in the rough.

I’m forever being told that I’m an odd-looking actress, so it’s great playing parts where there’s no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can!

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It’s taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we’ll see whatever happens with that.

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

When we go through rough situations in life and reach the top, we thank God we had to go through all that.

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Things aren’t always going to go your way. You wake up one day, and things are rough. But then you wake up the next day, and things are going great.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

At the start of high school, I looked like a girl… to a very major degree. I had really long hair and a really round face with no facial hair. And I went to a very rough high school.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

I had a really rough time from sort of July 2015 to July 2016. I was really struggling with my game.

Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn’t like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn’t like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn’t afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn’t afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.

It’s been a rough 2020 for all us. Everybody in the world. Including myself.

Physically, I’m strong, I’m fast, I’m tough, I’m rough.

I’m accustomed to playing basketball really rough. When I came into the league, I was used to fighting on the court. That’s how I grew up playing basketball.

When you’re adopted, no matter what, you’ve got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you’re the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I’m so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.

You simply can’t get inside the heads of other people and say to them, ‘Look, I went through some rough times.’ It’s impossible to explain everything the streets taught me, and that was quite a lot.