Quotes About Challenge

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

I can't play 'Madden' without an index finger!

Every climb is different. The Dawn Wall was so dry and aggressive that my fingers would dry out to the point where they would crack. So I actually had to add as much moisture as possible.

We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.

You cannot play with fire.

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do it, and my only goal was really not to get fired off of it.

There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.

We don't back down from controversy - we fan the fires. People think we go out of our way to create it, but we don't.

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.

When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did.

I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you.

In terms of the way things went for me, I'm a firm believer that experience is what makes you. But I'm not saying it was easy.