Best Tough Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.”

Knows Trying Has Beens I Can School Loses Periods High School Tough Gains Weight Careful Be Careful Freshman After High School Life After High School

Author:Camilla Luddington

“Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.”

Wells Grew Grew Up Tough Neighborhood

Author:Kent McCord

“Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”

Children Actors Tough Adolescence Child Actors

Author:Jodie Foster

“Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.”

People Giving Sometimes Giving Up Tough Going Gets Tough

Author:Rob Mariano

“I am pretty tough as a boss.”

Tough Boss I Am Pretty

Author:Vijay Mallya

“When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.”

Giving Eye Jobs Five Huge Giving Up Tough Nine Good Money

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.”

Years Has Beens Fighting Football Taught Tough Areas Seven Locals League Seven Years Manchester Lad Formative Years

Author:Gary Neville

“Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.”

Way Wells Stars Rocks Huge Tough Incredibles Contradiction Rock Star Entertainers Mercury

Author:Karen O

“Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.”

Ifs Wells Happens Tough Anticipation

Author:Josh Peck

“Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.”

Knows Feels Stories Girl Games Bits My Own Comfortable Picks Tough Female Skins Tough Times Story Of My Life

Author:Josh Peck

“I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.”

Kind Kids Wanted School Opportunity Felt Figures Tough Tough Times Fitting

Author:Brie Larson

“Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.”

“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.”

Years Firsts Stills Helping Shows Lines Acting Four Advice Tvs Ten Tough Hollywood Coaching Tv Shows Movie Sets

Author:Michael Pena

“I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.”

Knows Facts Care Fighting Office Adults Tough Lifetime Know Me I Care Tenure

Author:Bev Perdue

“I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.”

Views Tough Pleasant

Author:Deval Patrick

“This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.”

Ifs Ideas States Guy Successful Taxes Tough Deceiving Tough Guy

Author:George Papandreou

“As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.”

Ifs Needs Government Jobs Faces Challenges Economy Tough Difficulty Ideology Free Market Small Government Tough Questions

Author:Lucy Powell

“I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.”

Ifs Kind Helping Guy Asks Kindness Demand Tough Defeat Snaps Admission Tough Guy

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.”

Children Space Husband Tough My Children My Husband Pretension

Author:Miuccia Prada

“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.”

“I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.”

Knows Different Culture Havens Mets Tough Different Cultures Aussies

Author:Teresa Palmer

“It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.”

Knows Years Long Sometimes Hard Whole Lasts Difficult Tough Seasons Tired Focused Stay Focused Slam

Author:Agnieszka Radwanska

“I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.”

People Way Feels Jobs Felt Audience Saws Directors Tough Surprise Fighter Princess Amy Tough Women

Author:David O. Russell

“2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.”

“Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.”

Running Young Winning Individual Loses Chance Company Higher Pure Tough Seeking Winner Folly Fund Investors Sophisticated Tickets Venture Lottery Lottery Ticket

Author:Steven Rattner

“It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.”

Ifs Years Actors Situation Careers Successful Tough

Author:Ray Stevenson

“I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.”

Firsts Has Beens Country Home Names Player Tough Slam Tough Things

Author:Samantha Stosur

“As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.”

Ifs Body Accepting Tough Gains Weight Teenager Gymnast Being A Teenager Spandex

Author:Alicia Sacramone

“To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.”

People Men Looks Character Guy Tough Built Toms Cruise

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Self-deport? What the heck does that mean? I have no doubt Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign. But now there's an opportunity for Gov. Romney to have a sincere conversation about what we can do and why. I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.”

“Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.”

Choices Tough Being Yourself Being Authentic Tough Choices

Author:Robert Breault

“When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.”

Buddhism Balance Tough Handle Over You Life Balance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Matter Humanity Enjoy Millions Buddhism Mindfulness Tough Miles Enjoy Life Slow Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I believe that the process could be fun, I just think that making movies is really tough. And it's stressful as it is, and I think that most of us got in this business because it's fun to make movies.”

Thinking Believe Fun I Believe Process Tough Stressful

Author:Francis Lawrence

“By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.”

Believe Tough

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.”

Thinking Standards Tough Critics Come Up Albums

Author:Jo Stafford

“You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.”

People Shows Feelings Lying Girl Grows Attitude Growing Up Nice Tough Alternatives Shy Lied Realised Unloved Boyish Nice Feeling

Author:Maj Sjowall

“I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.”

Want Persons Loses Goes On Tough Court Tough Person

Author:Maria Sharapova

“There are no tough guys in wrestling.”

Guy Tough Wrestling Tough Guy

Author:Randy Savage

“I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.”

Men Play Guy Fronts Tough Presses Tough Guy

Author:Tom Sizemore

“I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.”

Bigs Baby Tough

Author:Tom Sizemore

“Never having alone time is real tough on people.”

People Real Tough Alone Time

Author:Yakov Smirnoff

“I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.”

Knows Kids School Taken Cutting Tough Teeth Pretending Milk Hideous Fangs Antibiotics Jaundice

Author:Charlize Theron

“Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.”

Ifs Doe Kids Action Asks Responsibility Teaching Policy Tough Consequence Curiosity Teaching Kids Tough Questions

Author:George Tenet

“It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.”

Believe I Can Hate Games Fun Can Do Tough I Hate Strikes Believe In Me Embarrassing I Can Do It Striking Out

Author:Jim Thome

“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.”

People Thinking Men Want Firsts Actors Winning Careers Involved Tough Incredibles Holes Prize Rabbits Credibility Cameron Rabbit Holes Tough Man Prize Winning

Author:Miles Teller

“There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.”

Writing Decision Powerful Information Scene Tough Edits Tough Decisions

Author:Tate Taylor

“It's tough to know the value of water until it's gone.”

Knows Values Water Gone Tough

Author:Mark Udall

“I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.”

Ifs Today Causes Difficult Millions Records Tough Dollars Video Million Dollars Whatever It Takes

Author:Bobby Vinton

“The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.”

Needs Important Country Decision Tough Determination Reputation Greece Tough Decisions

Author:Evangelos Venizelos

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