Quotes About Adversity

I'd had a rough childhood.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

I'm not proud of my chin but I can take a shot.

I'll take the accolades when they are there and I'll take it on the chin when things aren't great.

When you get the armband, everyone looks to you to lead, and when things go wrong, then you get criticised the most, and I need to take that on the chin.

When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.

I see the hate, what some people say, but I just prove them wrong at the end of the day because I show everyone what I can do. Some people don't want me to succeed but you just have to take it on the chin.

The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I have a boulder on my shoulder.

I got a chip on my shoulder from the Draft.

I've got a chip on my shoulder, but that's something I've carried with me my whole life.

The one-word story about why I have a chip on my shoulder is 'bullying.'

I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.

When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.

You either fall, or you fight - and I chose to fight.

Winston Churchill was like Winston Churchill because of his experiences in life.

We all know Cinderella had a rough start, so I really relate to her in many ways.

There aren't many odysseys in cinema for characters.

A1 Ring is a circuit where no one can test, so all teams are in the same boat.