Angelina Jolie Quotes

I know that I am a lucky guy. I know that after an accident like the one I had, you know, only one guy out of a thousand can really go back home and still live. And I am that one. So I am totally aware of that.

I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?

I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.

There's a lot of times when I shouldn't have been here. I go, 'Man, I'm blessed.' I've had people shoot at me and had all kinds of stuff happen, and somehow I'm still here, and other people are not.

Sometimes you found yourself in conflict or within an area where there's conflict. Some days you just find yourself in danger. Sometimes these things mould you and that's what I mean about hostile environments.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

Life has to be dangerous.

I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.