I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

I myself had a rough life and it's been a struggle but I believe my gift is the ability to connect with everyone.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Gleason was a rough guy. Like all of these comics, I have never known one who is a sweetheart all the way through.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

I am not a very rough and tough kind of a girl, rather a little sensitive. I believe in unicorns, dreams and dolls.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

I'm usually rough during Spring Training. My Spring Training numbers aren't very good, but I never expect them to be.

I grew up with two brothers with whom I played a rough game of football. If I could take that, I could take anything.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

You learn a lot more when you're going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.

Never been a successful audition, not even so much as a callback, when it comes to putting me in a role of being rough.

Pop country is about being so clean and perfect and not having any rough edges or imperfections. It's all manufactured.

Wherever you come from, even if it's a rough neighbourhood, there are always good people who know what they want to do.

I kind of went through a rough period. I could have kept going down that road and then off the cliff and into the ocean.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.

My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.

I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.

I like YouTube; it's really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

I worked for a smoothie company, and that was rough. I also sold women's shoes for a very long time. That was super rough.

You know, I have got quite a husky, gritty voice which people say - even when I'm talking nicely - does sound a bit rough.

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that's where I'm from.

Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

I need to show my son that when things get hard and rough - not if, when - you have to keep going; you have to move forward.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

I've always been the type of person that has told friends, if they're going through a rough time, I'm always there to talk to.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

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