New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.

It's very tough for someone who doesn't have a filmi background to get work in Bollywood. It's not a smooth ride unless you are really lucky. But I think one has to be prepared for that.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

Man, I fought since pre-K. I was small for my grade, but I was tough.

A fighter walks in the room and people are like 'oooo' because everyone is trying to be a tough guy.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

Losing weight is so tough and I have been trying really hard.

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it's tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

I find doing emotional scenes very tough, it is very challenging for me.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.

It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

In past relationships, I learned so much about that person through the tough conversations and how we handled them together.

We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

I feel it's tough to make friend when you're always thinking about work.

Growing up in New Jersey, everyone wanted to be a tough guy. That meant baggy pants that fell down, big T- shirts, and chains. I couldn't imagine wearing tight jeans, as I thought it was dorky. Now I look at pictures of me then and think, 'Yeah, you looked dorky.'