Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them; keep making them until you are confident in what you see.
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.
Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness. We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles.
If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.
I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.
After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
It's tough for those celebrity couples. It's really hard. My wife wasn't in the limelight, which made it easier... the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun.
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.
Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.
I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.