Robert Redford Quotes

Theater gave me the confidence to believe I could play something else, 'cause it was so difficult. It was me out of my comfort zone. It gave me the confidence to believe that I could push myself and challenge myself and still succeed. Yeah. I'm very, very glad I did it. And I'm very keen, now, to take what I learned there into more television and film.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I've already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I'm capable of, and acting is definitely that.

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 think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

I like challenges in life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone.

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.

I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

I like new challenges and new experiences.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.