Quotes About Survival

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

I look back upon those days in the Crockett/Turner era of The Four Horsemen and often wonder how I made it out alive. Perhaps my contract had some fine print on it that said, 'Associating with The Four Horsemen can be hazardous to one's health.'

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.

Prison killed me. It destroyed me.

By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.

I didn't have any shrimp the whole time I was in prison.

I loved 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts, which is going to be made into a film. It's an amazing story about an Australian guy who escapes from prison and his first port of call is Mumbai.

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

Granddad was deported to a Siberian prison camp at the age of 15.

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

When eyes were first developed in animals, suddenly animal life becomes proactive.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

I broke ribs three different times.

I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.