Quotes About Challenges

I do kind of think there's a bit of an overemphasis on - in the community - on sort of achieving ever-so-slightly better state-of-the-art results on particular problems, and a little underappreciation of completely different approaches to problems that maybe don't get state of the art because it's actually super hard and a pretty explored area.

If I had had a big explosion of a break right at the beginning of my career, I don't know that I was emotionally ready for that, as a human, just yet.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

I can't afford to wait for big films. So I take up small films as they provide maximum exposure.

It hasn't been easy for me to get roles in movies after so much exposure on television. There's an anathema about TV, and breaking away from it is difficult for almost everybody.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me.

I'm not always the best with expressing emotions and understanding my emotions.

I've been personally attacked for respectfully expressing my take on women's empowerment.

In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body.

After the first couple of games I hadn't scored and you start putting an extra bit of pressure on yourself, and the longer that goes I think it becomes more difficult.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

I was still only 19 when I went to Scotland, but it was a good loan move for me to play those extra games.

As a teenager you've got a lot of stuff going on all the time. It's hard to find a couple extra hours of sleep.

I've already got 10,000 more eyes on me because I am of color and they're going to see what I can do in the top series. That's enough pressure in itself, so I don't need to add extra pressure.

I'm still a woman of color in this business and there are times when you still have to walk through extra doors and have extra things to prove.

We've lived through some extraordinary moments, and the saddest moments as well. We have to learn.

My childhood was extreme.

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

I have extreme ADD.

My life has been extreme. Most people will not have the experience I've had. But the things that changed me, really changed me, they happen to everyone.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.