Quotes About Challenges

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

You can't live in the Bronx and survive on just $80,000 or so of income, if you're married and you have three kids at home.

On New Year's Day 2008 I had two bailiffs turn up on my doorstep and because I had so little income I had not been paying bills, and I respect the concept of paying bills, I'm very much in favour of it, I just couldn't quite get it together.

2014 wasn't my finest year. I was a bit inconsistent. I did too much training and got a bit overtired. It's the way I am, and sometimes I overtrain.

When times are tough, we tend to outperform as margins increase.

The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.

Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.

The challenges facing our Armed Forces are increasingly complex.

I have had an extraordinary life, but it's been one incredible roller coaster ride.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

You cannot make a living doing independent films.

I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.