Quotes About Limitations

Working with kids is always hard because you have to have very limited hours. They have to have breaks, and they have to have a tutor, and they have to have a lot of - good things! But it makes it hard to shoot.

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

I think that a movie of a TV show is really tricky, and I don't know if it's ever really been done well. Because it's really hard if you have a 22-minute show, especially something like 'Party Down,' where it's all contained at the party.

Not all the roles that I've gotten were stereotypical, but in Korea, especially for TV, it's a bit limited for women in their twenties and thirties. There aren't enough female roles.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

but then you realize that this 'whole package' everyone's looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want.

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

If I go to a match it doesn't mean I want to buy the stadium or the club.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

Fans want you to be something super-human, something that's impossible for any human being to be.

I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

Once you understand what love is, you may come to the realization that your parents couldn't or didn't know how to be loving. This is one of the saddest truths you will ever have to accept. But when you clearly define and acknowledge your parents' limitations, and the losses you suffered because of them, you open a door in your life for people who will love you the way you deserve to be loved—the real way.

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country, but I don't. Well, maybe I can get the family to a park two times a week, and out to the country once every two weeks. Maybe I have to send my child to a not-so-good school. Well, maybe we can read one or two good books together aloud. If you can't give them everything, give them something.