Quotes About Resilience

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

I'm not too picky. I'm not waiting, sitting around for the ideal and perfect role. I like to work, so I try to make the best of whatever opportunity comes up.

The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.

Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.

There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, is the American dream.

Here I am, playing with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Kidd is my coach, I'm in Brooklyn, New York, they lobbied for me to be here... Regardless of my circumstances, I'm here.

My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.

You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.

When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.