It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

- Aziz Ansari

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

- Ari Millen

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

- Amy Lowell

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

- Ally Walker

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

- Aubrey Plaza

If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.

- Alexi Zentner

When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.

- Arthur Smith

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

- Anton Corbijn

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

- Abhishek Bachchan

When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

- Aaron Sorkin

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.

- Aziz Ansari

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

- Ayn Rand

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

- Aretha Franklin

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

- Ann Richards

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Albert Einstein

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

- Alan Alda

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

- Adam McKay

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

- Abu Bakr