Hardest Thing Quotes - Page 9

• Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

  Bryan Cranston

  Player, Actors, Periods

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 2, 2003.

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• The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

  Roger Clemens

  Father, Heart, Reality

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• 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.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Roles, Fruition, Actors

  "FNL's Adrianne Palicki on learning to be a badass for Red Dawn and Wonder Woman". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2012.

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• 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.

  Cat Power

  Thinking, People, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Home, Night, Order

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• 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.

  Abel Ferrara

  Laughing, Looks, Things To Do

  "Abel Ferrara On “go Go Tales”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. October 8.

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• You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Movie, Dream, Somewhere Else

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• Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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• I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

  Bruno Mars

  How You Feel, Down And, Hardest

  Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

  Gary Oldman

  Inspirational, Children, Recovery

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• So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Pain, Mean, Hatred

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Telling The Truth, Hardest

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.107, Penguin

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• Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

  Maya Banks

  Giving, Sometimes, Hardest

  Maya Banks (2007). “Love Me, Still”, p.45, Samhain Publishing

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• One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Honesty, World, Helpful

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

  Pat Barker

  Pain, Empathy, Goes On

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• Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

  Dean Koontz

  Teacher, Loss, Said

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1003, Bantam

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• Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

  Julian Barnes

  Simple, Purpose, Clarity

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Funny, Thinking, Eggs

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• The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Vanity, Stupidity, Selfishness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

  Laozi

  Acting, Overcoming, World

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• Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Diversity, May, Dangerous

  William Sloane Coffin (2011). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.83, UPNE

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• To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

  Nancy Friday

  Nice, People, World

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• It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Respect, Hands, Someone You Love

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• In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Commitment, Order, Practice

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• My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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