Quotes About Resilience

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

In life, when what has happened happens to you, you don't digest it.

There is nothing wrong in losing with dignity, it is a part of the game.

If it is written for me to lose, I'll lose with dignity and give credit.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

Growing up, I didn't have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first.

We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.

My best teacher was my mother. She was a diplomats wife living in the Arab world in the 70s and 80s who always worked, even in really tough circumstances.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

If you drop a player when his form dips, sometimes it never quite comes back.

I see dog stories as an antidote to the dire news that nothing is ever going to get better.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.

If I'm in a good headspace, then it doesn't matter which direction things go.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

I want a manly man who's not afraid to get down and dirty.

I've got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.

We all know what my game is, to play hard. Not dirty, but play hard.