Quotes About Challenge

I'm someone who likes new things, likes change. But I also like challenges. I was a little bit of a prisoner to my challenge each time.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

Private life is always, at certain times, a challenge.

I never wrote. I also never really thought about being an actor. But when it was time to go to high school, we couldn't afford private school, so I tried out for all the special schools in New York.

I think if I had gone to a private school and been coddled a little bit, I wouldn't be as tough as I am now.

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

Having pressure is a privilege.

Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances.

Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

When those with wealth and power fear that their privilege is even mildly challenged, they invariably clothe themselves in the garbs of victimhood.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, 'How can you have something over me?' as opposed to the privileged person saying, 'How can we have something over the rest?' I find the latter more exciting.

Being a boss has been one of the greatest privileges and challenges of my life.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

That's what we play this game for; the opportunity to go win the ultimate prize.

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

The Championship is a really tough league with a huge prize at the end of it.

I played semi-pro at Chalfont St. Peter but it's so hard to become a pro footballer - I think there's even more competition than acting.

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

I feel like a pro now. Before I fought Holmes, I felt like a rookie.