Quotes About Bravery

I like feeling out of my depth.

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

I was kind of a scaredy-cat as a kid, and I made a very deliberate decision at some point that I was not going to let fear rule my life or determine my experience. That wasn't so easily accomplished.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

I'm not afraid to die.

I'm not afraid of anything. I'm not afraid to die, if I have to.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.

As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

I think that anybody that is interesting and takes risks is always going to be a target.

I take on daunting tasks.

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

I have a huge fear of birds, but I truly believe in facing your fears head-on, so, I now have two sparrows tattooed on the back of my arms.

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders, flying... nothing scares me apart from needles. I just hate them. Which is quite funny because I've had four knee operations, and I've got tattoos, so I've seen a few needles in my time.

In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.

I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

I have a son, and I'm not going to teach him to back down from anybody.