The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: 'Why on earth would you live in Canberra?' Loudly, and in a way they would never use to discuss anywhere else. And they never listen to the answer.

The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

Most parents are able to be with their kid every day. Every day of their life, their parents have an opportunity to be with them, and we don't have that luxury as professional athletes. That's the hardest thing.

I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

The hardest thing is not caring about other people's opinions.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.