Quotes About Adversity

I like challenges. That's why if I read a script, and I feel, 'Oh, I can't do this,' I'll take that role, because if I feel like, 'Oh, I can do this,' I don't want to take that because I can't learn from that film.

Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different.

When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challenges: if you've got a name like Sebastian, you either learn to fight or to run.

You can only get better by challenging yourself.

I don't care how much you know, how many books you read, how you much you study and, you know, how educated you are, you're still going to struggle. Life is challenging.

It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.

I just want to do something challenging.

It's always challenging to go into a role.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

'The O.C.' was very challenging.

The more blows you have in life, the better, because it means you're challenging yourself.

2016 was really challenging for me. I don't know what it was.

No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.

There's people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That's not the sign of a champion.

As a champion, you always want challenges.

In order to be the champion, you've got to play the best, you've got to beat the best.

My goal is to be the best champion possible and to do that I have to go against the best.

At the end of the day, great champions can take a good loss and great champions can take a good win, just like they take a loss.

Everyone is at their best against the champions.

In difficult moments, champions come through, and not by listening to what is being said.

I'm capitalizing on a lot of mistakes that champions made before me. I hear a lot of guys say if they were champion again they would do things differently and respect people more. I plan to do that while I'm still champion.