Quotes About Challenge

I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

When I face an opponent in the cage, it doesn't really matter who they are. Whether they're my buddy, like Scott Jorgensen, or someone I don't like, like Dominick Cruz, I'm going in there and realizing this guy is trying to hurt me, and that's what I'm going to do to him. I try to keep it real basic.

I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

Nothing's out of the realm. I think '24' has always keyed into that.

You know, when you do something that's different and out of your realm, you want to pick the right time.

We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

Who knows where I would be if I hadn't gone on Drag Race and gotten that kick in the rear to step it up to the next level?

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do.

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.