Eileen Brennan Quotes

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

I was probably about 13 or 14. I got pulled from a rope swing and some boy kicked me in the head and fractured my skull. It was a horrible time.

I got robbed once. A man pulled a gun on me and snatched my pocketbook in a car. I don't trust men that much any more.

I fell off a bridge when I was, like, 17 years old and got electrocuted by 15,000 volts of electricity - fell 30 feet.

You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

I was the victim of a violent attack in March 2008. I had sulphuric acid thrown in my face and was severely injured leaving me with loss of site in my eye and full thickness burns on my neck, chest, face and hands.

In one week, I got hit by a car - it busted through my hand - and my mom got cancer.

There was no other sound in the world like a car crash.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.