Quotes About Challenges

Directors never give you anything.

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

Half of the basketball world thinks I'm this hothead, dirty player who can't get anything under control and probably thinks I'm arrogant and a selfish guy.

If you see films which have been successful over the last 10 years, the women in them have been in their 20s. 'The Dirty Picture' and 'English Vinglish' are two I can think of. But there are very few good roles for women in their 30s.

Playing without a crowd is a disadvantage.

It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me.

An idea you disagree with has to be fought with a better idea.

People have said for years 'never work with children or animals' but I couldn't disagree more.

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

I've seen new actresses do one show and disappear or struggle for years to get their next break. I've been fortunate enough to have four shows back-to-back as lead.

I'm nervous about everything I do with Africa. You almost want it to go good all the time, and you don't want to disappoint.

I think, in Australia, it's kind of a crazy thing to say, 'I want to be an actor.' People look at you weirdly. And when I said I was moving to L.A., I remember people saying, 'No, you shouldn't. You'll just come back disappointed.'

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

In the year 2020, I was at home, it was so disappointing.

I think when you lose a cup final, it's disappointing.

You've got to laugh in the face of disappointment.

There are no disappointments, just challenges.

I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives.

When you get disappointments, you bounce back.

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

My ex and I were devastated in 2004 when I miscarried my second. It was the first of many disappointments to come for me after a life so blessed.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

I can't cook to save my life. I'm a disaster.