Quotes About Courage

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

It's important to be out as a performer.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

When I've known something is right, the actual doing of it is not scary. It's like being onstage or performing. After it and before it, there might be a lot of fear, but the act of it is never scary for me.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

It's pretty tough to intimidate me. And that's probably at my own peril sometimes.

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

My friend's mom said to me, 'honey, I think you're gay.' And I go, 'yeah, I am.' As soon as someone vocalized it to me, gave me permission. I was like, 'yes, yes, yeah!'

Have you watched Animal Planet? The lioness is out there hunting the zebras, the gazelles, all sorts of things, so you need to be the fierce lioness or dragon that you are. Have that inner fire. See what you want, get it, and ask nobody for permission.

My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness.

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

I live in a perpetual state of fear.

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.