Quotes About Courage

I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award.

I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.

I was asked recently about the fact I show my body more in 'Homecoming Queens' than I have in other things and whether that was difficult to do. I never thought twice about it.

Unless I move to a desert island with poor reception, I'll never stop speaking out!

The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone.

We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.

I do like things that are a bit reckless, so long as the people around me are professionals. Stuntmen will see you through anything.

I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.

A lot of people say I'm reckless and I take too many shots. I take shots on the forehead. There's nothing wrong with that. It puts me in punching range.

I still have a good girl deep inside, but also recognise that it's worth saying things people will disagree with or get annoyed.

I was pretty much nonexistent on the Internet before NASA, and that was really because I've been inspired by amazing sacrifices of people who did amazing things - jumping on grenades or sacrificing their lives or doing the most crazy, brave things without hesitation and never, ever seeking recognition for it. That was always very powerful for me.

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

What's really important is to recognize when people do great things or when people pursue an initiative or show enormous generosity or heart or bravery.

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

I'd recommend anyone watch 'Harold and Maude,' 'cause it helps a lot with fear of death.

Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself.

For kids in 2nd or 3rd grade, I would recommend the 'Dear America' series. Most of the stories in the 'Dear America' series, if they have black girls, are about them being enslaved, but they escape or do something really adventurous.

When you're faced with something for the first time, and if you're scared to death of that, you might want to reconcile your life beforehand.

Many say that a man comes along with the moral courage of Nelson Mandela once in a lifetime. He was an extraordinary man who paid a great sacrifice for his beliefs, then led a nation from the prospect of civil war to reconciliation.

Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.

For the record, I am gay.

I've come to the conclusion that the best way for me to grow is in a very self-forgiving way: to take a risk and, in response to how a record pans out, take a risk in the opposite charge.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.