Quotes About Adversity

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.

I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

You have to make the most of any time you are given, and any opportunity I'm given, whether it was as Charlotte Flair's protege, standing up against Ronda Rousey, being the statistician of Titus Worldwide, I want to show my range.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

I'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear. But when I sat down to play the piano, the very new shoes kept slipping off the pedal. So I took them off, threw them away, and have never worn shoes while playing the piano from then on.

My body is really worn out. This pain is part of my life, and I play the match with it. And since no other player has gone through what I've gone through in terms of injury, setbacks, it's hard for them to understand.

My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it's a muscle that can do no more.

I get worn down by people telling you what you can't do or what the problems are. Go on, give us a solution then.

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.

How have I lived so long? I never worried. In the '20s, there were millions of men out of work. You couldn't get a job anywhere. I wasn't worried.

I have never been worried because when you have hope and peace, you can handle anything.

Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.