Quotes About Grit

Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.

I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition.

Determination gets you a long way.

I went around driving myself to gigs everywhere, and eventually, people just kept coming back.

I'm a workin' girl.

All I've ever said I need is an opportunity. Give me a chance, and I'll take it with both hands and run with it.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

You gain nothing from giving up.

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.

I don't give in and I don't believe in giving up. This comes naturally to me, I know no other way.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I'm just glad I'm still here.

The life of an editor may seem all glam all the time, but there's nothing like schlepping through the city during a torrential downpour to put things in perspective.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

You don't sign up to 'Trainspotting' expecting glamour.

Where I come from - it's nothing to glorify.

I fought when most of the time we didn't even wear gloves.

The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.