Quotes About Resilience

I am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

It took a little while to get used to falling asleep without laying down on a bed or having a pillow.

At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

The interesting thing for 'Playing House' to me is we both are at crossroads in the pilot. We both have our lives kind of upside-down, and then because we're taking care of each other, we're able to move forward and live our best lives.

I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.

Being in a male-dominated career field as a combat pilot, I got used to kind of blocking out the lies in the attacks that people would levy against me and trying to tell me who I am and define who I am when I know what I'm fighting for.

Acting was never part of the plan - at one point I wanted to be an RAF pilot, but I wasnt made of the right stuff.

When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.

I went for officer training to be a fighter pilot, but never got past the aptitude test. So I decided to put on makeup and ponce about in front of a camera.

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.

Sometimes you get the pinball machine and sometimes the pinball machine gets you.

You're a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I've been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.