Quotes About Courage

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

I realized I deserve to be happy and have all the things I want in life. It might be scary and outside the norm of what everybody else does, but I need to just go for it.

I'm just a normal girl who dreams, who fights for what I believe.

From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

I'm a normal woman, a normal person, and I just want to drive.

What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep your hope up,' because there is hope until the very last second.

Courage comes normally to me.

Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.

There are probably people who think I'm crazy for doing what I'm doing and they're probably right. Compared to them, compared to the way they think and feel and are so bound by norms then I am crazy, but insane or enlightened, it's all pretty close. I would say it's just how you look at it.

My mom had an encounter with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 years old in North Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I'm so lucky she didn't get caught, because I wouldn't be here.

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.

I was accepted to North Carolina School of the Arts with stitches in my mouth.

I believe that North Carolina is Strong, Resilient and Ready to face the challenges of the future.

I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.

There's nothing I did wrong. I was just born in North Korea, and that was my crime.

My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.

The North Korean government are out to get me.

Michelle Williams

I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

I'm not a yes man. When the UFC says, 'Jump,' I'm not saying, 'How high,' because that's not fair to me.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.