Quotes About Challenges

No sport is easy, if you spend time away it will be difficult to make a comeback.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.

I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian.

As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

As a disabled comedian, often my hecklers are also disabled.

When you're a comedian, you're another race. You're friends with all these comedians who are white, black and brown. It's us against the world.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

Most people think that action movies are difficult and comedies are easy, but it's actually the opposite. Comedy can be a lot of hard work too.

I love comedy, and I'd love to do more of it, but I end up with the work I end up with.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

I think I've made decisions for the right reasons, and I've always communicated them in a respectful way. As a manager, you can't do any more than that. I sit comfortably with that. But I've not enjoyed it.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

The comic book world is a tough business.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.