Quotes About Challenges

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

I was made to be where I'm at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.

Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.