Quotes About Challenges

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.

It's hard to shop for a guy who has everything.

Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

I think personally that every actress should do a little film. Even a short film. And all directors should act, to know how difficult it is also the other way around.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

In my short time in Congress, I've learned it's a lot easier to find a reason to vote against something than to vote it.

It is always tough to miss shots.

When you're at the bottom, everybody is taking shots at you. It's up to you to stay with it and fight through it.

Some days, I'm going to miss shots; some days, I'm not.

Sometimes shots just don't go my way, but for me in my growth and as a leader, it's important for me to stay aggressive.

I'm trying to make the right play. Sometimes, I'm going to take contested shots and stuff, but it happens.

When your band is no longer just your band but is an industry within an industry it can be a lot on youngish shoulders.

If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

Maybe you're a little selfish that day; maybe you want something, and it can't happen, but you don't want to take no for an answer. Everybody has those moments, and you just have to be okay with being open and showing it.

I don't like to look back. I love the next challenge and don't keep awards. There are a few that are really important, but my parents have most of them.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.