Quotes About Courage

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

As you get older, it's good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it's not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away.

Turns out I'm good with guns even though I don't like them.

Galileos still exist in science. Sometimes a lone proponent of a new idea turns out to be right.

Not so much the sound but as a person, I would say Katy Perry inspires me because you can always see that she's being true to herself. She focuses on her music and even turns down big producers. Her whole career and music is about her being herself. I want to be more like that.

In groups, who sings this part or that part always turns into an issue. Eventually, you get the courage to go out on your own.

I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me.

People hide behind fake names to tweet negative comments, and I hate that. If you have something to say, own up to it.

If I feel strongly about something, I don't bother what will people say, especially when it is about the country and the Army. But my cricketer friends are all politically correct when they tweet.

I always try and make people feel that they are strong enough to say something - anything, to anyone - even if it's a stranger or they're just writing a tweet if they're in danger.

A lot of my fans also have gotten bullied and they always tweet me, 'How do you deal with it?' I always get questions about that, and I say if someone's bullying you, stand up to them. Say something.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

Not everybody comes out when they're in their twenties, you know?

Being in your twenties and trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do in life - with or without cancer - is a scary endeavor on its own.

I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, 2001, but they're too young for that. Maybe when they're twenty. Maybe by then, even though it's been only a short subway ride away for years now, I'll have the nerve to see the 9-11 memorial for the first time.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

I had a lot of strong women around my whole life who were survivors. My grandma survived breast cancer twice and the death of her child and the death of her brother, and, you know, just a lot of tragedy, and she's still the happiest person I've ever met.

I've failed once or twice real big, independent.