Best 628 quotes in «tough quotes» category

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

I'm not this tough guy, I'm not this super hard person.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

I'm really into tennis. Because of the traveling, standing in front of a mirror and lifting weights in a gym makes me feel putrid. I'd rather do something that's physically tough and mentally stimulating.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.

I'm very hard-nosed and cold-blooded and I can walk past a drowning man. If I have someplace else to go, well, tough s**t. I could do that. I can. Have. Sometimes, not because I was callous but had to do it.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

I'm very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.

In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative, I loved the writing, I loved the making of it. Because I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one. So the next one was always, "how am I going to do this?" And that thing was sort of always the thing that made me a little chickenshit to go into the next one. The writing of it was great and the making of it was great, but how am I going to release this thing and am I going to find a studio?

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: “You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.

I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand.

I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

I still love Marvel to death and I had a great experience, and it was a really tough decision to leave Marvel. It was a very easy decision to come to DC; it was very difficult to leave Marvel. And I really wanted to draw Batman, and really, that was entirely the discussion when it came to coming to DC.

I stay off the booze for a whole 12 weeks before a fight, it can be tough!

"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.

I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.

I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

I think just the music industry sometimes is a very tough business. But still, if it's just something you just love dearly, you really can't just put it down.

I think the big thing would be maybe the death of my brother. That was the hardest thing for me to take. It was very tough because that's natural and he saw a certain potential and he would say, don't ever have a drink. Now, I don't carry that far with people. I never had a drink.

I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

I think it's a legend that Lars von Trier is such a tough person to work with. I really didn't experience any of that. Of course, he's difficult in the sense that what he asks for is difficult. For my part in Antichrist, I suffered a bit. But it was the part - it wasn't him. He wasn't cruel. On the contrary, he was very kind. You know what you're up for when you read the pitch.

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

I think we're in store for a presidency [of Donald Trump] even more unlike any that people have been imagining. I think it's gonna be tough to predict this and to analyze it, certainly in contemporary, traditional terms.

It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.

It's amazing to see there aren't boundaries around gender. My menswear business has changed over the years as far as what men are daring to wear. And women, too. Men wanted to look tough, but now they realize you don't have to look like your granddad or dad. You can show a more feminine side.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.

It's a great sense of accomplishment when you can take something and really think it's really tough, and then all of a sudden you conquer it. That makes you feel pretty good.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.