Quotes About Courage

I never felt like running away from my dreams.

I am not the sort of player who runs away.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

I think of my mother constantly. And how she sacrificed her home and car for my freedom.

She was absolutely my hero. She would do without if she could help somebody else. My mom showed the courage of the lion to keep her kids alive, and the sacrifices she made were incredible. I don't know if I would have been man enough to do what she did.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

Risk more than others think safe.

I think a lot of people are too safe in the makeup industry.

You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

I am actually a 'Seven Samurai' fan.

I would love to do a biopic based on Aung San Suu Kyi's life.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

I really enjoy Sarah Silverman's fearlessness.

I'd rather fail doing what I believe in and feel satisfied that I tried.

If you don't take a risk, you will not be satisfied and happy. I think one must look at creating history.

I'm not satisfied with walking away from something and letting it beat me. That's not my spirit.