Quotes About Courage

I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

People called me all kinds of names. I had to put on a coat of armor and not care. You also learn in this industry that not everyone is going to love you. They will hate on you.

If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

When I was on 'The View,' I went backstage to Whoopi Goldberg's dressing room, and she told me, 'People are going to love what you do, and people are going to hate what you do, but you have to keep doing it. You have to stand up and do what you know is true, despite what people are going to say.' And I'm taking that into every aspect of my life.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

I did a lot of tae kwon do and branched off into other stuff later on, but tae kwon do is great. It was my equalizer. That was how I was able to survive in the land of the giants. Thank God for that.

My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I'm going to do exactly what I want, and I'm going to survive, or I'm not. I'm not going to pander. I'm not going to change things. I'm not going to do focus groups. I'll live and die by the sword. I don't care. Because I couldn't live with myself.

After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.

To survive is to win.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

As a human being, you find a way to survive, moment by moment, every single day of your life.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

We have to fight sometimes to survive.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.

There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.