Quotes About Survival

With 'Sons of Anarchy,' I had to leave a couple of times - I got another show, and I had a baby - so they sent me off to rehab. If I hadn't left, they probably would've killed me off by now.

Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.

Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

The true alpinist doesn't want any infrastructure, he wants to go into the wild. And the odds of getting killed there are relatively high. And most people are sensible enough not to want that.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.

As a child, I grew up in fear. When I was four, all my other relatives were deported to the countryside, having to leave most of their personal belongings behind.

North Korea publicly denounced me as an enemy of my people and punished all my relatives. They have this guilty by association policy and they go after three generations of your family or up to eight generations of your family.

Historically, Disney Channel stars don't survive well outside of the Disney environment.

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

You know, if you look at a lot of the hit games from America, they are about end of the world scenarios.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.

I always, always have the Holocaust on my mind.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

I was homeless.

We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.