Top 50 Hard Thing Quotes

Inspiration is a really hard thing to describe, but it’s something that triggers your brain, like the first time I heard a certain guitar player that I loved or the first time that I saw a monster or the first time that I saw anything that really was an epiphany for me. It just stays with you your whole life.

It’s a hard thing to age a character because you can’t really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it’s quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

People don’t last long in this game. I feel blessed that I’ve been able to stick around and play at a high level for my entire career, which is another hard thing to do. That’s the only way you stick around – if you’re out there and you’re able to produce and make plays.

Once you get a taste of success, it’s a hard thing to turn down.

Child stardom is a really hard thing. It can really lead to bad things, and I think a lot of people have gone through that.

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That’s something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it’s always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

I’m very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I’m going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I’d rather not take the job than be vague about how I’m going to do something and run into trouble later on. It’s a hard thing to negotiate.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don’t think you can force it, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It’s just something that sparks on screen or doesn’t.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

That’s the hard thing about this sport. You don’t have a guy over you telling you what you have to do. ‘You have to do this, you have to do that.’ So at the end of the day, I’m responsible for myself. So what I do is I put people in place around me to help keep me accountable.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade’s no easier to make than an oak.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

To fill the shoes of rock ‘n’ roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

Christmas movies, it’s a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.

When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer.

I like watching the other actors, but the hard thing about watching yourself is that the performance is done, and no matter how you’d like to tweak it, there’s nothing you can do.

I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.

I find it difficult to stand up for what you are and what your essence is, and seeing that clearly can be an unbelievably hard thing to do.

It’s such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it’s slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

The really hard thing for both men and women is getting older: it becomes increasingly difficult to live a life based on uncertainty, disempowerment is written into the job description.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that’s with quite a few changes. It’s not really a hard thing for me to do.

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That’s one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we’ll able to pay our bills down the road.

I love Los Angeles, and I’ve secretly always wanted to do a song about Los Angeles, but it’s a hard thing to pull off.

It’s a hard thing to find in people: to sit and just be present with someone, even for two minutes.

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to do.

I’d always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I’d always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it’s such a hard thing to get. It’s the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Asking people for money is a hard thing to do. But helping people do the right thing is not hard. So I often call people up and suggest ways they can spend their money to make a meaningful impact, and I don’t feel I’ve asked them for money.

The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.

The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I think I should do it myself. I just try to be an artist for myself. That way, it’s a lot easier.

The ability to take pleasure in one’s life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

It’s a hard thing when you’ve got guns pointed at you, to still stand up for what you believe in. Jimmie Lee and his family did that, and several others.

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it’s soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

It’s… a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It’s the worst thing you’ll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That’s a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don’t even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that’s a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

To get a child’s trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing to do. They’re so used to not believing adults – because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

The playing is great. The traveling is tough. It’s a hard thing.

Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it’s multifaceted.