It's Really Hard Quotes

#1. When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#2. I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

Lea Thompson

#3. It's main storytelling hell because it's really hard to keep a secret. It's really hard to not communicate. But I think that's what's great about this world is it's a world where he is off the grid, and for me, it's a way to step back.

Brian Wayne Peterson

#4. Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen.

Tisha Campbell-Martin

#5. People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

Dean Wareham

#6. Sometimes you hate your music, sometimes you don't. Sometimes I listen to the record and it's really hard for me, and other times I listen to it and I give myself a pat on the back.

Angel Deradoorian

#7. I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.

Diablo Cody

#8. I'm constantly moving and constantly travelling, and so it's really hard to maintain a relationship in that kind of environment.

Rebel Wilson

#9. It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive ...

Susan Sarandon

#10. In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.

Tim Cope

#11. It's really hard to grow with another person.

Lena Dunham

#12. It's really hard to perfect one aspect of your kicking game when you're spending some of your time kicking with a holder, some of your time kicking off a tee, and some of your time drop-kicking the ball. To be able to concentrate just on my punting responsibilities will do wonders for me.

Pat McAfee

#13. The thing about America - it's different everywhere, but visually, it's amazing to shoot in the desert in the New Mexico light. It's really hard to shoot in that desert and make anything look not amazing.

Lenny Abrahamson

#14. It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

Ken Blanchard

#15. I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really hard to go through painful experiences when you are in the public eye because it's hard to have closure.

Beyonce Knowles

#16. Victoria summarized it with this last gem, "Look, all I know is that it's really hard for a couple to ask for a divorce from each other when their genitals are buried in each other's faces.

Luke Young

#17. Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

David Heyman

#18. I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

Laura Prepon

#19. Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it's like boot camp out there; I can't do anything - just sleep, sing and be very healthy.

Gloria Estefan

#20. I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.

Naya Rivera

#21. I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

Ellen DeGeneres

#22. It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Cathy Rigby

#23. Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.

Troy Polamalu

#24. I always look for the writers and what they're creating. If it's something I don't buy, it's really hard for me to play it. To me, it has to be grounded in some sort of reality. It's really hard to go to these extreme places if they're not grounded.

Sarah Clarke

#25. I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

Zendaya

#26. It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

Kristen Wiig

#27. If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#28. Whenever you move to a different team, it's really hard just to get to know each other. The best thing I've found is to just be yourself. They're people like any other people - you just have to get to know them and create that relationship.

John Wes Townley

#29. When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.

Becky G

#30. If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

Tad Williams

#31. It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

Fefe Dobson

#32. Okay, so I want to talk about it. Dammit, how can you be so good at the whole keeping things to yourself thing? It's really hard.

Samantha Young

#33. A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

Kathleen Hanna

#34. It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

Edward Furlong

#35. It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

Jamie Lidell

#36. It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Bill Gurley

#37. I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.

Lenny Abrahamson

#38. It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

Benedict Wong

#39. Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.

Morgan Freeman

#40. When you run out of love, it's really hard to understand whether you have lost your heart or your heart has lost you ...

Munia Khan

#41. Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

Scott Hamilton

#42. I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.

Psy

#43. I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

Greta Gerwig

#44. It's really hard work being a model.

Jasmine Guinness

#45. It's really hard as a Canadian actor to make a footprint in the States, because of the visa stuff.

Shenae Grimes

#46. It's really hard to say the words I love you when you know you'll likely never hear them back

Karole Cozzo

#47. It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.

Olivia Wilde

#48. The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

Kelly Clarkson

#49. I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Chelsea Clinton

#50. I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

Leona Lewis

#51. 'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

Jenna Fischer

#52. And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano ... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#53. It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.

Andrew-Lee Potts

#54. I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.

Jake McDorman

#55. For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

Jon Scieszka

#56. Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.

Jesse Eisenberg

#57. Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

Thomas Bangalter

#58. I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

Aleksa Palladino

#59. It's really hard to be what everybody wants you to be.

Demi Lovato

#60. It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

Brie Larson

#61. Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about the world being your oyster? Does that mean it's really hard to open, and when you do, you have something slimy and gross on the inside?

Anne Ursu

#62. Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.

Ann Brashares

#63. It's really hard to find parts that challenge me as an actor these days. At this point in my career, I feel like I can just sleepwalk through most of my roles and still do a better job than 90 percent of the actors out there.

Zach Braff

#64. In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Jason Clarke

#65. But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

Nicole Polizzi

#66. It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.

Doug Martsch

#67. It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

Karen Thompson Walker

#68. As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

Kirsty Gallacher

#69. It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

Grimes

#70. It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

Edward Snowden

#71. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

Chuck Klosterman

#72. It's really hard for me to remember all of the places that I've been but I can remember all of the delicious meals that I've ever eaten. I love traveling by way or stomach ... and finding quiet time.

Sarah Kay

#73. There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.

Chris O'Donnell

#74. Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.

Alane Adams

#75. It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.

Darlene Cates

#76. When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

Chelsea Peretti

#77. I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy?

Robin Hobb

#78. On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times.

Liang Chow

#79. I guess it's true what they say: it's really hard to spot someone dressed in meat, slinking along a meat wall. - Sadia: The 8th Circle of Heck

Dale E. Basye

#80. I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

Lisa Loeb

#81. I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

David Wain

#82. You get comfortable, even when you're unhappy, don't you think? Sometimes, it's really hard to take charge of your own unhappiness

Cat Porter

#83. On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera ... it's really hard.

Bill Henson

#84. When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Taylor Swift

#85. I can't point to my work and say, 'This is my work.' My work lives in me, so when people criticize my work, they're also criticizing me. It's really hard to sort of divorce that sensitivity.

Frankie J. Alvarez

#86. It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.

Lindsey Stirling

#87. Sitting there on the deck during intermittent periods of dozing I thought that it's really hard on a soul to admit how much of life we have spent being full of shit.

Jim Harrison

#88. It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

Penelope Spheeris

#89. It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.

Steve Burns

#90. It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#91. I think it's really hard to plan if you don't believe you can implement those plans.

Assata Shakur

#92. It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking ... surreal.

Ashley Tisdale

#93. It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.

Natasha Bedingfield

#94. There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

Brit Marling

#95. It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.

Rodney Atkins

#96. When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Laini Taylor

#97. It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'

Beth Ditto

#98. The reason I don't make more movies is because it's really hard to find ideas that I go, 'Yeah, I could spend two years of my life doing this.' Mostly what I do is say no to movies because I go, 'Maybe I would see that, but I don't think I could spend two years on it. I'd go nuts.'

Jonathan Mostow

#99. It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.

Emily Robison

#100. YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

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