Adelaide Clemens Quotes

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

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

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

Take whatever happens and try to make it work.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age.

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

The hallmark of the human species is great adaptability.

If you're good at what you do regardless of what is thrown in front of you, you will make it work.

There are going to be games where you don't have the greatest conditions, so to show that you can do it in bad conditions is a plus.

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.

But I'm the type of person who, whatever you throw at me, I can make something out of it.

I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations.

What I've learned is, there's not just one way to achieve a goal. There can be obstacles along the way and it's how you learn from that that will really make you a success.

It's funny how quickly human beings adapt.

I have always been the kind of guy to adjust to anything. I never cared where I was going to sleep or what court I was going to practise on.

Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.