Quotes About Courage

My first expedition was at about the age of eight.

I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.'

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself - honestly, that's probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.

I remember sitting on the back of the bus on the first day of the Social Experiment tour with my face in my hands. I emptied out my bank account, and before I did that tour, that was the number one thing I said I'd never do. I'll never empty out my savings.

I love to experiment, I don't have a fear of failure.

I have never shied away from experimental roles.

In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can't speak in class. So it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable.

I wanted to go into exploration. I've always been an explorer in my youth.

I've always been an adventurer, an explorer.

I'm an explorer.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer.

I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.

I feel a lot like Magellan. You know - the great explorer during the Age of Exploration.

People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.

Everybody has that thing about them that makes them special, and sometimes we try to dull it down or we don't always want to expose it, and maybe we've been taught that way or whatever. It's just a matter of letting it out and letting it go and letting people in on it.

There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

If you've got the chance to really speak your mind and do what you feel and express yourself how you want, then this is freedom. Drag is freedom.

I believe in finding somewhere you can express yourself, play without fear, play with everything you have. When you find that place, stay.