Quotes About Challenge

I know where TNT's sweet spot is, and when I read 'Perception,' I thought, 'This is a chance to play a fascinating, fun, challenging character but still within the realm of something that will sit very well with 'The Closer' and 'Major Crimes' and the other shows there.'

You can add things to savoury dishes as you cook, but sweet dishes are more challenging.

I remember on 'Jug Face' working with Chad Crawford Kinkle, who is as sweet as they come. He told me someone had given him advice that if you're making a drama, you basically need to put your main protagonist through living hell in every scene, and then you'll have a successful film. He laughed it off until watching me every day!

It's hard to get to the right position, to be somebody who is commercially successful and critically acclaimed. That's the sweet spot.

I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

Getting swept is hard.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

A lot of people think it's insane to swim out in blue water with a great white shark, but my experience tells me I can do it safely. Other people might consider it mad, granted, but then I might think what they do is mad.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

And as a woman, you need to take risks. Don't stay too long in your own swim lane.

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

My swim coach was very tough on me, and I respond well to that training... being pushed to my limit.

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

I always wanted to swim the Channel, which is insane.

A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.

In this game, you're on your own. You either sink or swim.

I tell people that the best thing that can ever happen to you is getting fired, and you can either sink or swim, and I swam like hell. The reason why I swam the way I swam was because there was nothing else for me.

It's sink or swim for me in 2020.

I can't swim. I've got better, but I can't go out of my depth. As soon as I smell chlorine my heart starts racing.

Sometimes it's like teaching a kid how to swim; sometimes you throw them in the deep end and tell them, 'Don't die. Keep moving your arms.' It's kind of like that with acting sometimes, where there's a lot of trust afforded.

I am not a swimmer so a bit of phobia is always there with water stunts.