Paul Tsongas Quotes

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

It's only when you push at the edges that you excel.

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

I like challenges; I like excitement. I like entering different worlds and trying to succeed - not excel, but succeed.

I am always looking for projects that make me step out of my comfort zone and do something different.

Success comes with a baggage. When you are successful, there is a lot of temptation to not foray outside of your boundaries and just stick to what is successful. It is very tempting because it is very easy to do.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

I love trying new things.

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.