I don't think you should do something just to prove to an audience that you can do it, that's way out of your wheelhouse.
You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
Be a gunner? Me? I don't think I can do it. But I'll go for whatever the assist record is.
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.
Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.
You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.
I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?
Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand
If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.
Why go through life if you're not going to challenge yourself?
Keep training harder and always challenge yourself.
Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.
If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.
Treat your life like a game.
