Quotes About Resilience

You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.

It is not like if one film of mine doesn't work then I am going to pack my bags. It all depends on how much determination I have to want something.

People seem to think that, by the time you hit 45 or 50, you might as well just pack it in and call it a day.

My mother used to pack me Filipino food for lunch, and I would get made fun of because of the way it smelled. Kids would make fun of me because of the way I looked and call me 'Ling Ling.'

I've always felt that 'Dope' is a big movie in a little package.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it's all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.

If we're losing, I probably won't be talking as much. I'll probably be more talking to my pads.

Whether it's one play in the NFL or 1,000 plays in the NFL, your pads will come off eventually.

For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.

My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

I'm probably not going to shed all the pageant girl, because that's who I am. If you don't like it, that's too damn bad.

I was told I would never win a pageant because I was too little. But not only did I win, but then when I was told I would never be able to model because I was a pageant girl, I became a model and I was successful at it.

I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost.

Because I knew we were going to wear five inches during the pageant, I would train with six inches. So, when it was time to wear the five-inch heels, they felt like nothing to me.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

All I know is this: The reason that I've gotten attention from this industry is that I just kept making films until they paid attention.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.