Playing someone difficult is tough and can be discouraging, but if you beat them the payoff is huge!
I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
We are succeeding in Iraq. It’s a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
I’m just a tough old woman.
Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I’ve played tough so much.
People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.
It’s part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.
I just want people to finish the book and say, ‘I was entertained.’ When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.
Parenting is tough.
Any time you make a movie where you’re living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it’s tough not to take a little piece home with you.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You’ve said that you will commit to this part, and I just can’t live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
I think that’s what we like to explore and see on TV these days especially in long form, is complicated people who have to make tough decisions.
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you’re playing a character who changes within the movie, you’ve got to do that, but you’ve got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that’s really, really tough.
Yes, sometimes I’m friendly and joyful, and sometimes I’m tough, and sometimes I’m straightforward.
We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we’ll always be holding each other’s hand.
It’s a tough world but female jockeys have been successful so many times that hopefully the perception of riding against the boys will change and we will gain more opportunities.
Once you’ve been through tough times, you can only become stronger.
Americans are fighters. We’re tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one – no one can stop us.
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you’re not prepared for.
Detroit is a place where we’ve had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you’re never sure where you might fit in.
It is very tough to make a short film. It’s like writing a short story, which is tougher than writing a novel. You can’t afford to faff around; you can’t indulge. You have to get to the point.
I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me.
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.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius… For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary.
I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.
Stick with the optimists. It’s going to be tough enough even if they’re right.
I didn’t know how to show my self love, and I didn’t want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, ‘I’m not having it.’
When I was younger, it was so much easier. All I needed to do was just get a job. It was like, ‘Oh, my God, I have a job! I can call myself a working actor.’ But then, the older you get, you have to be more selective, and that’s tough.
I understand you’ve got to go through tough times to get better.
If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she’s difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
Dennis Siver, he’s a tough guy.
My favorite thing about being famous… it’s not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It’s still pretty tough.
Political stories in general are tough. They just don’t appeal to as wide an audience.
People say I’m tough and too blunt. I’m a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.
He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he’s done. He’s not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn’t have been given the job if the situation would have been different.
I want people who go through tough times, hard times, or didn’t have everything right-things didn’t fall in their lap or go in their favor-to know that they can still achieve their dream and go to the highest of the highs.
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge – like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
Some said he couldn’t take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.
It’s tough never being right.
Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
As tough as I’ve been on anybody, as hard as I’ve ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.
Whiskey’s to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.
There should ideally be a synthetic track in every district. Athletics is tough, and needs more support.
I’m trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it’s unfair how everything that’s bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn’t match up.
I’ve always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner showed the path, in a way. They’re all tough women but not afraid to be vulnerable. They made me feel someone like me could do that.
I don’t think a tough question is disrespectful.
Donald Trump is well known for liking people he thinks are tough.
Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
We have a problem. ‘Congratulations.’ But it’s a tough problem. ‘Then double congratulations.’
I don’t think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he’s going to talk tough to China. China didn’t create Social Security, Medicare. China isn’t spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn’t have.
The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That’s my main opponent – making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won’t let you.
I’ve always been perceived as a tough guy.
There are lots of reasons for that gap between men’s and women’s wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you’re shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
I wasn’t born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.
