Ken Shamrock Quotes

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

All the things I went through, my losses, those really helped me.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.

There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year. Weirdly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

I think the toughest phase of life is over, and I don't wish it on anyone. My family has gone through a lot, and I don't want to dwell on the past.

Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips to jail, ... It will get you really humble and really truthful, and gets you ready to sing out about who and what saved you.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

Been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.