Quotes About Courage

I'm actually quite a scaredy cat, myself.

In a dream world if I wasn't a scaredy cat, I'd work for the FBI or something like that. That's always been a dream of mine since I was a child, to work for the FBI or DEA or something cool like that.

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out plays.

I was honestly a Catholic.

I would never be one to go striding over to any woman who caught my eye - after all, I'm the person who got to know my wife's parents before I plucked up the courage to talk to her.

If you truly want to be great, don't get caught up in what has been done before or who has done it.

I know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

I celebrate those who wear their red poppies with pride.

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.

I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.

Don't be afraid to let someone go if it's not working. You're not a bad boss. You're not a bad CEO.

For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

Anything can happen in life, but you have to be a man and sometimes say certain things.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don't. Personal attacks on me? I think I'm just so used to it.

These chains are not going to stop me.

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

I was a senior in high school, and my mom saw on the news at work that they were having an open call in New York, and she thought it's for a musical, and maybe we should go and just sort of chalk it up to a new experience... And so, we did. We went.

Riding a camel was a challenge.

I have always liked a challenge.