Challenge Quotes

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.
Scott Speedman

Character, Nothing, Mean

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
James S. Coleman

Serious, Accept, Culture

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?
Michael Patrick King

Try, Else, Story

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.
Kathy Bates

Love, Time, Character

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
Kathy Bates

Time, Long, Person

It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of them launched quite some time before our mission.
Linda M. Godwin

Time, Two, Before

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Trying, Energy, Wind

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Life, Understand, Keep

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.
Tom Daschle

Difficult, Against, Wall

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
Mac Thornberry

War, Together, Trying

It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.
Gail Devers

Between, Won, Hurdle

I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.
David Thewlis

Job, Different, Enjoy

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
Julie Taymor

Yourself, Risk, Failing

I wanted to bring something to 'Celebrity Apprentice' to let America know that you don't have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to a challenge.
Cheryl Tiegs

America, Wanted, Order

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.
Thomas Jane

Experience, Away, Alive

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
Gale Norton

Greatest, Trying, While

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
Alberto Salazar

Freedom, School, Enjoy

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
Verne Troyer

Good, Speak, Able

And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.
Alex Lifeson

Work, Time, Laugh

I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
J. R. Martinez

Life, Yourself, Pride

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
J. R. Martinez

Life, Important, Learned

I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.
Woody Harrelson

Time, Hard, Hockey

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
Dana Spiotta

Creating, Sentences

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
Andrea Martin

Done, Broadway, Musicals

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.
Dick Morris

Great, Fight, Born

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.
Jai Rodriguez

Honest, Year, Beginning

There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.
Michael Pitt

High, Direction, Asking

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan.
Gerard Arpey

Change, Today, Made

I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.
Jeremy Irvine

Great, Teacher, School

I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
Elizabeth Meriwether

Character, Writing, Mean

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