Quotes About Challenges

There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much more difficult to be hopeful and to dream extravagantly.

There aren't as many women in my industry in comedy as there should and could and hopefully will be, but it is interesting growing up watching a woman in a male-dominated industry and kind of, like, plowing ahead.

I've had some good games and some not so good games, hopefully all the fans remember the good ones.

To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that will give me longevity.

I was hopeless with the Internet, I didn't even like it either. As I said before, I thought 'what an annoying thing' you know, it's doing all these terrible things.

Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

I am going a bit deaf and I am hoping that technology is going to come on leaps and bounds and that one day I will hear better.

I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.

As a former teacher, I know how frustrating it must be to watch students walk out of class, particularly if they have important exams on the horizon.

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

I have horrible anxiety.

It's really hard being old - it's horrible.

I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.

Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.

I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.

I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible.

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.

I was a horrible athlete.