Quotes About Courage

Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.

At 16, I was facing 11 life felonies.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

If you fail, do not be discouraged.

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

I'm afraid to fail again.

It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

There's a lot of times that you got to put yourself out there to fail, you can't be afraid to fail.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying.

You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.

I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.