My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.

When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting.

Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.

Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.

It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in other places, or that you can somehow by cleverness or righteousness avoid it. No, it will happen, and to you! Losing, failing, falling, sin, and the suffering that comes from those experiences—all of this is a necessary and even good part of the human journey.

It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE — IS — HARD.

Going somewhere good means having to go through and with the bad, and being unable to hold ourselves above it or apart from it.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

After trampling over many bodies and corpses, we succeeded in getting inside. We let ourselves fall to the ground.