Quotes About Challenges

You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just won't even go out of the house at all - but it makes life so unenjoyable. You can't go out, you can't hold hands with your girlfriend, you can't do any of these things.

If you look back over my life, there's been a lot of things that have happened that I really haven't had any control over, from my childhood to where I grew up to what went on in the household to stuff with my mother, to my daughter. The list goes on and on.

I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

I nannied for a couple of months. The kids were super-funny; it made me wish I grew up in a comedy household. But nannying is demoralizing. I'm just not cut out for it.

There's no perfect household anywhere.

There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

Houses with courts and gyms are super expensive. Not a lot of players can afford that. I know it sounds crazy to say an NBA player can't afford that, but that's how it is in L.A.

A woman is a housewife.

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

I was a convicted felon. No one wanted to give me a job, I couldn't get any government assistance, and I couldn't get any housing assistance.

Since that moment in Houston where I fractured my collarbone, I've experienced a lot more experiences in the NFL than I had up to that point. A lot of them great, some of them not so great.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

I am not an adventurer or a writer, I am a person who thinks life is too short and if there is something you fancy doing you should have a go and see how far you get.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

People are obviously capable of handling the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. But I don't know how many people have had to experience them within seconds of each other.

You never know how many times you're going to be able to come out on Rod Laver Arena and just play.

That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.

I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.

No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.

Life is going to happen to you no matter what weight you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter how much money you have in the bank. No one gets a free pass.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.