Life can be hard in the real world.
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.
I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.
The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.
It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.
I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.
Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.
I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.
