Quotes About Challenges

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time.

I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.

I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.