Challenging Boundaries Quotes

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.

It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports.

Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.

If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough

Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushing the envelope a little bit too far. We weren't happy with the distribution we were getting, and a few other things. So for a lot of ways it made sense for us to jump to a major label right then, and it made sense in terms of challenging ourselves to put ourselves in new situations.

I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

My favorite models are always going to be the people who are pushing the boundary and challenging what it is to be a model.

I always look for variety. I always want to run the gamut.

Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.

We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.

What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of?

I do not like to label the characters I am doing or even myself as a particular type of actor. I try to do different kind of roles which are not the same 'hero' or 'villain' kind.

I guess I've always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.