I always keep moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past - from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL [Canadian Football League] and only having 7 bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression - I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me. It helps keep me grounded, and it's a good reminder of how things work, and I never want to go back to that.
One thing that I've been very vocal about roles I take, and my representation has been very smart about, is that I didn't go to Juilliard to be "Thug #2" in movies. I like to be challenged. I'd say that about 40% of the roles I've done have been written for white men.
The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.
There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.
We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.
I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.
Young women are now looking at me for cues. That's definitely been a responsibility. But I feel like I was ready to take on something like this because I wanted to be challenged and I wanted to be afraid, and that's definitely what it's done for me.
I'm always challenged by someone.
There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?
We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.
What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged
I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.
It's always nice to be challenged.
I have been challenged by the concept of meditation. . . I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. . . . I had before only sensed intellectually. . . But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.
We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.
Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.