Alexandra Fuller Quotes

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

I was very lucky that I didn't end up a basket case.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

I've been through hell not totally unscathed, but I came out not too bad.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.