Quotes About Challenge

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.

There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.

I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from 'The Blues Brothers.' I'm a comic actor, but I'm an actor, too.

The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.

We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.

If I'd had a magic ejector seat when I went to Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, I would have pressed it multiple times. I felt totally out of my depth. I had no money and there was precious little infrastructure so I had to barter to survive.

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.

Somewhere in the world someone is training harder than you. When you face him, who will live?

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination.

The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately under-rehearsed.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination.

Resistance has a fatal weakness, though. We can turn the tables on it. It can be defeated.

Dr. Liam Hudson, a British psychologist that headed up Cambridge's Research Unit of Intellectual Development in the sixties, compared IQ to basketball. If you're five foot five, your prospects of becoming even an NBA bench warmer are slim-to-none. The fact is if you're less than six feet tall, you can pretty much forget about your dreams to challenge King James

Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved.

The fact is if you're less than six feet tall, you can pretty much forget about your dreams to challenge King James in his court.