Quotes About Challenge

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.

Established actors will challenge you if they don't agree with the way you are taking it, and you have to argue it. But with a younger cast, they are more likely to wonder whether what they are doing is okay instead of trying to second guess the director. That helps push you.

As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then what's the point of having it?

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

After a level, it does not matter if you are capable to do 100 push-ups, but how to take action in a do-or-die situation - saving your country while on mission.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

I have fought my brother some times before. We got hurt sometimes, needed stitches, but it was normal after the fights. We always had a positive rivalry that pushed both of us to our best.

Playing Isabella in 'Measure for Measure' pushed me to my limits. Janet Suzman was directing, and she was very hard on me. I went through phases of not liking her at the time, but I loved her for it in the end.

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.

I couldn't sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

Not everyone is comfortable with being pushed.

In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.

I enjoy being pushed to the limit. Sometimes you feel like you are about to break mentally, but that's what I enjoy.

I've always worked out, but running pushed bits of me harder than anything else I had ever done.

My players need to have the feeling that they've pushed themselves to their limits.

In 'Padmaavat,' you are pushed to be as good as the frame, to have a presence that lives up to the grand, operatic, intricate, beautiful frame that you inhabit. I love trying to rise to that.

I wanted to drop the weight class to go to the 125s, and I played it off on how easy it was going to be. 'I can do this, no problem, I always cut weight.' I pushed my body to the extreme.

A strong willed woman is often feared. But more often she is pushed to the tether of her patience, forced to bend down.

I've always pushed my body way too hard, gone days without eating at 20,000 feet, and caught every exotic bug that didn't kill me.