Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Speleers

A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.

Elizabeth Moon

I used to not back down from a challenge.

Elizabeth McGovern

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

Elizabeth Banks

I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.

William Shakespeare

That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.

We were a real experienced, old team, everyone was a senior, and he stepped in and never was intimidated. Brooks, when he has a challenge in front of him, he usually comes through. He's a winner.

Alan Shepard

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Alan Kay

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Devon Sawa

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

David Schwimmer

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

David Morrissey

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

David Knopfler

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

David Tang

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

David Suzuki

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

Carl Sagan

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

Cael Sanderson

There will be many challenges ahead, and I'm looking forward to them.

Catherine Hardwicke

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Each and every day had its challenges.

C. J. Mahaney

Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

Cathy Freeman

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

China Mieville

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Charlize Theron

You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes [not]. That's the challenge of the job.

Charlize Theron

In life we want to challenge ourselves.

Charles Handy

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

Bill McKibben

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

Mark Cuban

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

Neil Burger

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.