Forest Whitaker Quotes

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty.

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.

Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting.

The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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.

My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.

I like new challenges and new experiences.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

One thing that I'm continually reminded of is just to always find something that will challenge you in a new way, a very new way, and that's not the easiest of roads, but it's the most exciting.