Quotes About Challenge

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, its something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.