Quotes About Resilience

A lot of negative stuff has happened to me - that's why I'm tough - but I don't want people to be like, 'Oh, poor Becky,' because I'm not a victim.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

I wouldn't say I'm a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

I am not going to play the victim.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.

I certainly don't feel like I've been the victim of typecasting.

I have never been a victim of antisemitism - if you put to one side my war-time experience. That said, I am lucky not to have been sent into a concentration camp.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

I don't like to play the victim.

I can only say, don't be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

I don't want to be a victim.

Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.