Quotes About Challenge

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.

I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Are you threatening to kidnap me?" "If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

My boyfriend loves golf and he is good at it but I am not that great at it. It drives me nuts, but I'm super competitive and I always want to win.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.