Quotes About Challenges

As the first of anything, you're going to be judged. If you accept the good, you have to accept the bad.

I think sometimes, especially 'The Bachelor,' feels like you're being judged. You play it safe, so to speak. I've never played it safe and I think that made for a really good season.

My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.

I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.

I juggle so many hats that it takes something really special to convince me to get back to acting in films or TV serials.

Why are we only considered successful if we can juggle family with a demanding career?

Juggling a huge cast is a bear.

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

You see these juicy roles, and 9 times out of 10, they'll go to a much more established actor. It's the nature of the business.

I think the fact that I'm married to Julia, people like to take shots at me.

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

I'm constantly saying that I have bad hair days when I'm in New York. It's so hard. I've been lucky enough to jump immediately into a car, head straight to the location, and stay in the air-conditioning.

When the world says, 'Jump,' you gotta jump. It's like me moving to America when I was 29. I just did it. And now it's a home. You can't plan those things.

I can't see myself doing something as astonishing as jumping of a chopper. I find it stupid.

If we're just going to have contenders fighting just to fight, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Then I might as well just start jumping around divisions too because there's a lot of fun fights for myself in other divisions that I think I would love to entertain.