Quotes About Challenges

My lowest point came when I shifted to Mumbai in 1993. Nothing was happening. This is right after I did 'Bandit Queen.' I had no way to tell people that I know my job. There was no casting department here. All the commercial films that were happening in those days did not have any place for me.

You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.

When I first got to the city, I had no money. I was living in Queens amongst boxes and lived in Harlem and didn't have a couch.

I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.

I would want to do a cooking show. But I want to honor the opportunity that's been given to me with 'Queer Eye.' I feel like my work is cut out for me with the show alone. If it ever goes bust, then I'll explore that possibility.

Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

'Have you ever considered changing the name Nasty Gal?' is probably the dumbest question I've ever heard.

I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing.

In my early 20s, I set out to kind of find myself. At that time, if you were different or if you ever questioned your gender identity or sexual orientation, society kind of put you in the gay club.

Whenever something's really hard, you always question yourself, and I had many times when I questioned myself, but I always rose above it.

It is more difficult to make film which does not have a big name. People start questioning the cast and the budget.

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

We're living at a time when people are questioning what it means to be male in modern society, and I'm finding it very helpful to explore it through these roles.

When I made the decision to go to Europe, a lot of people questioned it. The first six months I was there even I was questioning it, but I think I learned a lot more about myself in that six months than I have my whole life.

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.

As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.