Quotes About Adversity

I know what it's like to be on public assistance and to be unemployed. And I know what it's like to be evicted.

I was effectively unemployed after my son was born. I resigned from Bristol because I wasn't happy with the way my career was going then discovered I was pregnant when I was out of a job, but I was freelancing.

Growing up in Flint, Michigan, I saw so many kids from my school end up in jail or unemployed, and gangs would hang out and cause trouble in my neighborhood. I had to learn how to protect myself, because it didn't feel like anyone else was protecting me.

I first picked up a camera when I was like 19 because I was unemployed and starting to get bored, and I was like 'right, what can I do?' And vlogging was just the thing that was on the rise, so I was like, 'let's give that a go,' and luckily it turned out very well.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.

I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

I've seen a lot in my life and nothing really shocked me, just being where I'm from. But this was unexpected. It just hit me, like, I have cancer? Me?

If there is anything that my life has taught me is that life is unexpected and you're not always going to know the cards that you're going to be dealt.

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

No matter the circumstances are that you lose someone, nobody's truly prepared. Steve's accident was so unexpected - it was extremely challenging.

My career after 'Life Unexpected' took a really big dip, and I realized you have no control as an actor over the process of going to work.

To me that is what the Odyssey is all about, it's about being in the world and unexpected challenges and dangers are thrown at you.

Anything can happen. That's why sports are so great, the unexpected.

Being a part of 'Mothoon' was unexpectedly character-building.