Quotes About Challenge

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

I'm confident you haven't seen the best yet. And I will only get better through time and through tougher competition.

(You know) you're improving from fight to fight (when you can) showcase your talents against greater opponents every time.

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn.

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."

Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.