Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.
Sep 10, 2025
The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do.
For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.
What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.
I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.
This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.
The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.
Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.
Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.
The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.
It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.
I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
The hardest thing to do is to trust people.
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.
Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.
The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.
Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.
The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.
I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.
I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.
Lots of people still live with fears about anything. It can be lots of different things. One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.
I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.
I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like.
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.
Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.
I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.
The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.
I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they've just said. That's all there is to improv, but it's the hardest thing to do.
As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.
Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.