Quotes About Resilience

I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I think that's normal for someone who wants to grow and develop. You will have to overcome plenty of obstacles, and it is normal that you should stumble sometimes.

I don't stumble at any hurdle.

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.

Sometimes you stumble when you push yourself harder and you're trying to run faster or whatever. We forgive ourselves, pick ourselves up, and keep running. We don't cry and stop running because we skinned our knee.

You never want to have a stumble, but it happens sometimes. It happens, and you get through things.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

Any opponent can be a stumbling block.

Banging my feet against the snow to get a grip on the ice, I damaged my artificial leg stump. On several occasions my artificial leg turned 180 degrees and I had to put it back to its normal position which slowed me down. I had to crawl along the slope to move forward, annoying the climbers behind me.

I've been stung by a jellyfish.

When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady - and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out.

I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.

I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.

I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches.

I wanted to be a stuntman. I've done stunts since I was 11, and wanted to be able to do them whatever kind of work I ended up in. I've had a horse roll on me, but luckily, everything stayed intact.