Quotes About Challenge

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

I like challenges. That's why if I read a script, and I feel, 'Oh, I can't do this,' I'll take that role, because if I feel like, 'Oh, I can do this,' I don't want to take that because I can't learn from that film.

What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challenges: if you've got a name like Sebastian, you either learn to fight or to run.

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.

I really enjoy playing a challenging role.

You can only get better by challenging yourself.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

I don't care how much you know, how many books you read, how you much you study and, you know, how educated you are, you're still going to struggle. Life is challenging.

I just look at the character and the arc of the character, and see if it's going to be challenging. We always want to challenge ourselves. That's the biggest thing that I look at. Is this going to be a challenge? Is this going to be something that I can try my best to create, that no one could see anyone else do?

I have just been lucky to get challenging characters every time.

It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.

My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

I just want to do something challenging.

I am always challenging myself.

I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.