Quotes About Challenge

It's not easy getting to a Grand Slam final.

Once you move into the second week of a Grand Slam, you know you are getting closer to playing on some of the world's biggest courts.

I left my native place to come to Mumbai, got routinely cheated, was given bad words, had phones and doors slammed on me. All my work and time was going down the drain. I didn't get credit for some work I did.

Extreme sports has changed our aesthetics because they slap cameras all over the place and we really know that they are jumping out of a plane or parachuting or whatever it is they're doing.

I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.

Cancer is a cosmic slap in the face. You either get discouraged or ennobled by it.

It's interesting to see all these guys keep calling me out after they win. I don't know whether it's a slap in the face or just respect. I don't know. I have no idea. I can't tell what to make of it.

I don't want to be a slap hitter, but be a dangerous hitter in the lineup and want people to come right at me.

I started my career with a loss, getting 'slapped' by life.

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

To love shoes is to love problems. Every season, starting a new collection is my greatest challenge. The blank slate in front of me, starting the process all over again, there is no greater challenge.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.

I'd rather play in front of people who wouldn't listen to Slayer. That to me, is more like, 'Hey, listen to us.'

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.

My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.

The show 'Mahabharat' has given me sleepless night; I just couldn't stop thinking about it. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me, and I don't want to leave it at any cost.

I've got respect for everybody I play but I don't fear anybody. Nobody causes me sleepless nights.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

When you pinch-hit, you know you're getting their best guys, and usually it's a reliever and a guy that's got a really good slider or a really good fastball.