Quotes about Resilience

I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

I stay motivated no matter what.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you.

So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.