Quotes About Challenges

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

It's funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you're doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

American families only spend 17 minutes a day on average having time together.

Jerry Seinfeld, he was doing Letterman show all the time, so he kind of had an excuse, that people know the jokes already. He didn't have time to do stand-up. A guy like me, I have no excuses.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.