Quotes About Challenge

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

It was a big step for me to go to Bayern Munich. Of course, the expectations were different than at Dortmund, but that's what I wanted.

If you want to go all the way in the Champions League, you're always going to face Barcelona, Real and Bayern Munich in rotation.

My first year in Munich was definitely not easy.

I'm a little bit nervous, but life comes with challenges and I'm ready to take on this one. To be able to sign for a club like Bayern Munich, it's exciting stuff.

There are actors who do various different shades of a similar character, which is fine. But I prefer the Cillian Murphy school of doing something that takes you so far outside yourself that it's an incredible challenge and adventure.

I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a strong grass-roots game.

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.

For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.

Test cricket is not easy. If you haven't played first-class cricket for five years, then your muscles aren't used to bowling for that long.

I had built my body to look like a boxer, then I lost it completely for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns.' It was really tough gaining weight, building muscles, and then losing it completely for another film.

It's called the music business. We've all gone into it 'cause we love the music, and a lot of people end up with nothing at the end of the day, after they've done all of this great music, 'cause they never learned any of the business side.

I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.

Yeah 100 per cent, I feel like I've been trying to crack the music industry now for a long time and it's been hard crossing over from reality to doing music.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

My brain knows how to learn musical theater dancing, but learning hip-hop? It was so hard for my body to understand how to move in that way.

Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise.

I like living on that edge, musically. I like a bit of insecurity and that feeling of not really knowing what's going to happen.

Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.