Quotes About Challenges

You've got to learn to laugh in the face of adversity.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

I know something about adversity.

In adversity you have to become stronger and make sure you don't make those mistakes again so you learn from it.

I've had to fight through a lot of adversity, but I just kept fighting.

Everyone thinks I am rich, I have a plush office, I make advertisements and travel - but only I know the kinds of problems I face.

I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.

Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

The kind of life I led really affected my family.

I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

Failure affects me hard.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

The future is Afghanistan.

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

A lot of things haven't changed - clothes and stuff have - but kids keep working after-school jobs and keep getting into terrible trouble in relationships. That's not going to stop.

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

Every character I play is straight, which is unique, my agent says, because it's not really been done before that someone who is completely out is able to play straight roles.

At certain times during your career, at different ages, you feel better than others.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost.

I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address.