Quotes About Challenges

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

I just kept making social mistakes in my career.

I could not make mistakes while choosing films when I started out.

In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there's no mess, there's no change happening.

Even though we are at the top level, we all make mistakes. We play the game, and mistakes are part of the game.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

It's tough to do comedy. After 'Mister', my inhibitions with respect to comedy have come down.

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

Have I felt misunderstood by Music Row at times? Of course.

A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

Just feeling misunderstood sometimes, I guess, has been my biggest downfall.

I was asked to be in Elton John's band, Joni Mitchell's band, and Miles Davis' band. I couldn't do it.

It's hard to mix work and love.

Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.

Different players play you different ways. Some players might be slow-footed so they got to backup. Some players might push you up. You've got to have a go-to that's a mix for both of them.

I have OCD mixed with ADD; you try living with that.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.