Quotes About Courage

I'm just a regular Baltimore chick who believed in God enough to follow her dreams.

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

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

What's life without risks? When I made 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam,' everybody said in India you can never have a husband say that I am uniting my wife with her lover. The male audience would reject it, and it is a male audience and hero-oriented industry.

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

You take the risk of being rejected.

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.

I never went through that awkward period of being rejected by girls.

I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.

Everyone fears rejection.

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.