Quotes About Adversity

All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.

Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

I am one of the most attacked persons.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

People should be faced with losing everything a little bit more often because it really helps put a lot of things into perspective.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.

Struggle is always very demoralising. It's not a romantic phase in anybody's life. It's very difficult. What it does is, it brings out your creativity in different way.

Every phase of my life always hasn't been perfect for me. I've had to go through some adversity.