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Quotes About Strength

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.
~ Lily Collins
I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.
~ Nicollette Sheridan
It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.
~ Nina Bawden
I don't want to be a victim.
~ Carrie Fisher
I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.
~ Robin McLeavy
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
~ Kate Brown
When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.
~ Ginni Rometty
I'm not a victim.
~ Stacey Dash
I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one.
~ Brit Morin
I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
It's rare that this woman gets to be in a superhero movie and not be the victim.
~ Morena Baccarin
I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.
~ Noma Dumezweni
To make it big, a fighter needs power. Otherwise, sooner or later, he'll fall victim to opponents who force the issue and take two or three punches to land one.
~ Thomas Hauser
I am not the victim, and I won't be the victim in football or life.
~ Mauricio Pochettino
I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.
~ Dion DiMucci
If someone would tease me about my hair, I would laugh... if someone called me black, I would laugh. I just took things in my stride. I was never made a victim.
~ Masaba Gupta
I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today.
~ Clemantine Wamariya
I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.
~ Nadya Suleman
I've never seen myself as a victim because of my physicality. If I did play that game, I wouldn't be the comedian that I am.
~ Ralphie May
Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
I dont want to be a victim, nor be portrayed as one.
~ Davina McCall
I hate the victimization of women, always.
~ Claire Denis