Quotes About Challenges

Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.

My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.

In my early days depression did inhibit me because I was too debilitated and terrified to tell anyone why I couldn't get on a train from Manchester for auditions in London.

After 'Waqt,' I was terrified I'd be offered all the mummy roles.

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining.

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying.

I have two girls and one is now nearly a teenager - it is terrifying.

The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

Hit shows are very difficult to achieve. You need to have everything just right - that's what's so terrifying.

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

When I first started training, I guess the fact that I was undersized, it just didn't register initially. Obviously, I knew I wasn't huge and there were some bigger guys in the territories at the time, but I guess I never looked at it as a hinderance.

I don't want to infringe on Alec Baldwin's territory, but I'm a pretty darn good 'Words With Friends' player.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.

In Milwaukee, I was a young player and I didn't get the time that everybody expected, but that comes with the territory.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.