Quotes About Challenges

Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.

The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

Quebec's financial situation is serious. In terms of intensity, we're close to matching 1982 and 1997. We won't do the same things this time, but the problems we face today are about as pressing.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.