Quotes About Challenges

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Life is a series of lessons. Crises can be seen as the homework. They aren't there to defeat us but to help us grow—to graduate us into the next stage of life.

Variety in experiences is necessary for our continued growth. We mistakenly think that the "untroubled" life would be forever welcome. It's the deep waves of life that teach us to be better swimmers.

Oh, Shit list

Stercus Accidit. [barren happens]

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon

Look," I said, trying to reason with him despite extensive experience that this rarely worked. "This isn't a great time. I have my inauguration—" "Coronation." "—coming up

You must lose, at least once, in order to fully appreciate a win!

The twenty years you inflicted on me were the juiciest years of my life.

There's the parent you want and the parent you have.

I know, but it reminds me that I have no control over life. Life doesn't care if you're a soldier or a seventh grader or an aquatic reptile. Things happen.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

Because if you are fresh from the hazing of PhD training, you are: insecure, defensive, paranoid, beset by feelings of inadequacy, pretentious, self-involved, communicatively challenged, and fixated on minutiae.

Like the road that got you here, the road through parenthood is unmarked. You can't cruise through it. Sometimes decisions are quick and instinctual, but often they're not. Doubts and dilemmas block every straightaway. There's only one directional sign along the way, and it reads, "Why not?

I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

Kids. Pain in the ass. Don't know why I ever made them. Hell on relationships.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.

Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.

Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there'd be days like these. How could nobody tell me there'd be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?