Quotes About Challenge

Coming off 'Sopranos' and 'Mad Men,' I was starting to feel like I was being spoiled creatively. I wanted to move forward as a director in TV and get more involved in the process. After having those two great experiences, doing regular episodic TV wouldn't be quite the thrill.

I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.

I think the things that excite other people don't even scratch the surface for me. I need much more to feel the adrenaline and the thrill.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.

There's no bigger thrill than beating the guy you're not supposed to beat or winning a race you're not supposed to win.

The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.

There is always that extra bit of thrill when you try something new, you get into it thinking you have nothing to lose, at the most you will fail.

I am thrilled to be joining United. I have enjoyed some very happy years at Chelsea, but the time has come for a new challenge.

When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I was absolutely thrilled. So what a surprise it was when it turned out to be the hardest thing I've ever done.

I find the horror genre quite challenging. That's not to say everything I've done has been straight horror - a lot of them have been more on the thriller side. But regardless, I find it the most challenging as an actor to create sheer anxiety and terror out of nowhere because there's nothing scary going on and you have to act like it is.

While thinking about 'Freedom,' I took 'Hate Story' as a challenge and did justice to it. We shot it like a beautiful international thriller.

Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from the score perspective, to enhance that tension without being noticed, just like those archetypes.

Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling.

There is nothing like going on a stage. You are in the saddle, and you've got to ride that horse, and there's nothing more thrilling and exhilarating.

It's so thrilling to be intimidated.

Playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar was the most thrilling thing I've done. You get these speeches that were written for men, and you're running around like an action hero, climbing scaffolding and beating people up. It was very freeing.

Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.

'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder.