Quotes About Challenges

I've been in a lot of tough businesses: First Lady of San Fransciso, working as model, actress, TV host. You better have thick skin, for sure, but you also need to laugh at yourself. I make fun of myself all the time.

I would say the more significant factor of my starting late is that I developed a sufficiently thick skin to be able to - just about - handle the knocks that a fledgling comedian takes.

Holding those two identities of being gay and Asian have, I guess, made my skin a little thicker.

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.

When we moved from 'Ice Age' to 'Ice Age 2,' we were really stuck; a story didn't just organically emerge. While I'm very proud of 'Ice Age 2,' from a storytelling sense, it's a very thin story.

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.

I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!'

My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness.

Terry Malick offered me three parts in 'The Thin Red Line.' I was busy shooting other movies while he asked me the first two.

Being an actress has the same requirements as being an actor, but it needs more. Fair, reed thin, tall, can lip-synch, can dance, can fight, ideally can act, has to be single all her life and most importantly, needs to be PG18 bracket.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

When things are going bad, there's going to be some good that's going to come from it.