Mara Wilson Quotes

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

If you have injuries, it's tough.

I'm constantly bumping and banging into things.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

My earliest childhood memories are just of me falling and getting injuries.

It is crucial to have an injury seen to quickly.

Over the years, I've hurt my thumb, separated my shoulder, and injured my back, but not too bad. Actually, my back was hurt pretty bad. I had to take an ambulance and was in bed for a week.

Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I'm the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac.

Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance.

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up.

Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.

I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.

I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

I fall a lot during training.