Quotes About Challenges

Everything was good when I was in Japan, and then, unfortunately, the injuries started.

If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.'

Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together.

'Hotel For Dogs' was fun for my family, but it was kind of hard to get in the audition room for 'Jennifer's Body' after that, you know? But I think the roles find me, in a way.

I've had a disproportionate share of interaction with jerks.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

It's tough being a Jew.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

The State of Israel failed in absorbing the Jews from Ethiopia.

I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.

Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate.

We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, where these incredible roles were written for women like Joan Crawford, like Bette Davis. But then there was a space of time where - I don't know why - it wasn't like that. It became difficult for women to find certain roles after a certain age.

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.

Aside from Joan Rivers and Roseanne, it's hard for me to think of any female comedian who's had kids and has a serious level of fame - like, the level where your mother has heard of them.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don't do these things for awards or rewards. I do them because I love challenges.

I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn't one of them.