Quotes About Resilience

If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them.

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

I admire that Robin isn't scared to show up every day, since he gets embarrassed every day.

The thing about Robin Givens as an actress is that she doesn't back away from anything.

I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket. I'm tired of that stuff. I manned up and did it.

I know about two things: 'Rocky III' and Clubber Lang, and 'A-Team' and B.A. Baracus. That's who I am!

'Rocky' I tend to watch through to the end every time.

I felt quite an affinity with 'Rocky' in my career. It's been like 'fight the business' all the way up.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

I'm the Rocky of MMA.

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

I'm no role model, but I thought if I showed my frailties, which I had turned around into achievement, I could help many others.

I wanted to be a role model, and a series of events took it away from me.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

Ceausescu was mad, and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad because of him.

It wasn't easy to live with my mother under one roof.

I heard so much negative about the rookie year, but it really wasn't like that for me.

I'm a rookie, but I'm not here to act like a rookie.