Emotional Challenge Quotes

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm writing it I struggle more with drama because I started out in comedy.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

I rehearsed it a lot underwater with a mouthpiece for Casino Royale and not freaking out, because you can't see a thing. It's like being in a really bad nightmare. I've never seen somebody drown, but I really swallowed water. It was like choreography. It was very emotional. I was crying underwater at one point.

Golf is a very, very frustrating game.

To move past fear is a cliche.

'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.

It's interesting to me because theater is, on any given day, 10,000 times harder than film and television. And that's not to say film or television can't be hard or challenging; it's emotional to do the same thing over and over and over. But in terms of stamina, there is nothing like an eight-show week to separate the men from the boys.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

The acting life can be quite scary, really.

It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

I've been learning a lot in my years, it's not just the fight itself, its a lot mentally fighting each other, that's something I learned later days. I realize now it's very important.

Six months away from family and friends is a long time. Emotionally, you go through some ups and downs. Life changes on the ground, and you have to ready for that. Life changes for you up here as well.

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.

For me, 'Soul Deep' wasn't an easy thing to do.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.