Quotes About Challenges

When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and super performers at work - and all at the same time. That's stressful.

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.

I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

Less so here, I've noticed. I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.

I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

My wife, Bojana, is a doctor; we both work intense hours and have months when we barely see each other. It isnt easy, but we realize nobody said it was supposed to be!

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.