Katie Cassidy Quotes

I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It's not about money, it's about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.

I feel like I've been proving people wrong all my life.

People think that you're gonna come out, be a one hit wonder, and finished. You gotta prove 'em wrong.

Growing up a lot of people said I played like a guy. They thought it was an insult, but I was like, 'That's fine, I don't care.'

I don't really care anymore: I'm fiercely proud of the fact I've been able to make a career despite the fact I wasn't born into privately educated schools.

I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.

I was the first Indian to take on and beat the best in professional wrestling, but I certainly don't want to be the last.

The EP is called 'Kiddo' because this has been an uphill battle for me. As a female in the industry, as a female of colour, some people will demean me. So it's like, 'OK, you wanna call me kiddo? I'll show you kiddo.'

The act of me just being robust in the world is so radical - it's so radical for a black woman to think she's going to be a star, because it takes so much to get there. It's still a battle every day, but I feel happy because I feel like I cracked the code and figured out how to work through it. Now I want to give the map to other women.

I wanted to prove I wasn't that person everyone wanted to stereotype me. You can slag me off, I talk about my upbringing now and try and do it in a way that inspires others, but I never felt good about it.

I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.

The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?