“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.” IfsYearsActorsSituationCareersSuccessfulTough Author:Ray Stevenson
“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.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFirstsActorsWinningCareersInvolvedToughIncrediblesHolesPrizeRabbitsCredibilityCameronRabbit HolesTough ManPrize Winning Author:Miles Teller
“I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.” KnowsLooksCareersHusbandToughGloriousMy Husband Author:Emily Watson
“There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.” MenPersonsHas BeensMomentsStepsCareersToughPlatesStep UpUnderestimatedTough Person Author:Tamara Mellon
“Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.” TryingStillsActingCareersCollegeTough Author:Beverley Mitchell
“Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.” EasyVoiceCareersToughActresses Author:Lucille Bliss
“I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do makes it a lot easier to work, every day, to face the tough spots and heel in for the long haul. Nothing against plans; they work for some people. But for me, if I'd been planning, worrying about numbers, trying to micro-manage my career, I wouldn't have focused on the writing. If you don't write, you're not read. If you're not read, you don't sell. So that's my Master Plan, I guess. Write the books, let the agent agent, the editor edit, the publisher publish.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingLongBookFacesNumbersCareersWorryPlansMastersEasierToughSellsFocusedPlanningManageSpotsAgentsEditorsHeelsPublishersPublishEditsHaulLong HaulLoving What You Do Author:Nora Roberts
“Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.” SometimesLife IsChoicesCareersToughTough Choices Author:Bill Maher
“A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.” SportsCareersSupportImpossibleToughManageGuidanceFamily And FriendsTough TimesReassurance Author:Rahul Dravid
“After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different” IfsYearsHas BeensDifferentCareersSixToughBeachTough TimesGave UpBlokes Author:Gurinder Chadha
“And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.” ProblemDifficultCareersFocusTroubleToughNotionSavedTraditionalWorking ItThings In LifeFrustratedHeartbrokenDifficult ThingsScaffoldingMoney Problem Author:Teresita Fernandez
“It's tough to put into words right now, but I finished my career how I wanted to. Through the ups and downs of my career I've still been able to do everything that I've ever wanted to accomplish.” StillsAbleWantedCareersRight NowToughAccomplishFinishedUps & Downs Author:Michael Phelps
“It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.” GamesCareersToughExpectedCoachingSixteen Author:Steven Stamkos
“Honestly, in the beginning, it was really tough. Coming from Cincinnati, Ohio, I was just a girl who had a dream, which was to go to Los Angeles, have a career and to be able to support my family. To have a dream like that and, you know, you're not ready.” KnowsDreamAbleGirlCareersSupportReadyToughMy FamilyHonestlyLos AngelesOhioNot ReadyJust A GirlCincinnati Ohio Author:Carmen Electra
“Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to have a million bucks, but it keeps me in music and without a day job, so it's working out fine.” PeopleThinkingNeedsJobsCareersMillionsFineToughWork OutLike MeTough TimesBucksDay Jobs Author:Freedy Johnston
“I think it could get passed in a lame duck? Probably tough. But impossible? No, or I wouldn't be wasting my time. It's going to take some leadership, and it takes a time where leadership is more important than people's political career at times.” PeopleThinkingImportantPoliticalCareersImpossibleToughMy TimeDucksLameWasting My Time Author:John Kasich
“It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.” WantBelieveMightFightingEasyCommunityCareersBattleCostToughColleaguesConstituentsStand For Something Author:Caroline Kennedy
“Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my career took off very quickly, but still. All the memories I have about first casting in general - they're not nice. Just because there's so many girls, so much competition. I don't blame those casting directors, they see so many girls and they can't be nice to everybody. But you don't feel like a person, you feel like a number.” FeelsFirstsPersonsStillsGirlMemoriesNumbersCareersNiceLuckyDirectorsToughBlameCompetitionMy FavoriteBeing NiceCastingModelingCasting Directors Author:Bianca Balti
“America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.” WayFeelsDoeHandsAmericaSpiritCareersBreakProudToughRenderingDeluded Author:Martin Amis