Difficult Quotes - Page 38

• I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

  Megan Fox

  Fun, Comedy, Cry

  "'I don't want to be overly sexual now I'm a mum': Megan Fox talks motherhood and movies" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. December 7, 2012.

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• I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what theyve already seen you do.

  W. Earl Brown

  Artist, People, Trying

  "EXCLUSIVE: W. Earl Brown Talks Bloodworth". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 18, 2011.

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• The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

  Dominic Cooper

  Country, Good Life, Iraq

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• I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

  James McAvoy

  Thinking, World, Most Romantic

  "Into the Blue". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

  Felicity Kendal

  Opposites, People, Lazy

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• Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

  Horace

  Men, Accomplish

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• Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Witty, Profound, Sublime

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.151

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• Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

  Samuel Johnson

  Practice, Superstitions, Conviction

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.143

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• I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nice, Thinking, Feelings

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• Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

  Michael Douglas

  Energy, Tolls, Chemotherapy

  "Michael Douglas: My cancer battle". www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2010.

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• I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, Insecurity, Adults

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• Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

  Hans Blix

  War, Democracy, Occupation

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• Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to take his clothes off.

  Conan O'Brien

  Doctors, Clothes, Yesterday

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• All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Gambling, Sick

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• How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.

  Gloria Reuben

  Children, Years, Care

  "A Louisiana Mother’s Day Wish" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

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• You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.

  Kathleen Robertson

  Thinking, One Day, Twenties

  "Kathleen Robertson - Chameleon of the Big and Small Screen". Interview with Todd Konrad, www.ifqmag.com.

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• You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.

  Criss Angel

  Believe, Years, Long

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• I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

  Stephen Mangan

  Dark, Passionate, Way

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• Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

  Glenn Hughes

  Running, Practice, Three

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• Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.

  David Lynch

  Men, Thinking, Hands

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• In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.

  Tippi Hedren

  Dog, Cat, Texas

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• As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those targeted by this culture of hate will become increasingly difficult. Rational debate will prove useless.

  Chris Hedges

  Hate, Get Better, Culture

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• A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

  John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

  Believe, Trying, Virtue

  Reg. v. Ramsey, 1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 145, 1883.

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• I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.

  Attila the Stockbroker

  Team, Kingdoms, Weapons

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