Pernell Roberts Quotes

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

The one thing that I learned from politics is you have to know how to watch your own back - and in some instances, you gotta watch your front, too.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

A man's own safety is a god that sometimes makes very grim demands.

Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.

By the time I was in high school, I was big enough to beat the hell out of everybody who said anything to me. And I learned how to blend in. All of that made me a very confident man. A very aggressive man. I developed it to survive.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

Both 'Saturday Church' and 'Pose' are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.