Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

I've always been adventurous. In the summertime, my mom would lock me outside of the house and say, 'Do something, and come back later.'

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

I always believe that one should be able to deal with any situations.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

I've never had much and I've never needed much. If I had only two bucks in my pocket, I knew I could spend it because I could always do another show of some kind, even on a sidewalk.

The thing about Gambit is that he's a man who knows how to adapt to survive. He plays things by ear, depending on the situation, and never feels obligated to follow the rules, because the only rules that matter are his own sense of honor. Ultimately, that sense of honor includes 'doing no harm' - at least, not to the innocent.

I think I am pretty resilient and resourceful.

I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it.