Steven Spielberg Quotes

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

I've learned how to function in chaos.

I always believe that one should be able to deal with any situations.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

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

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.

Mr President: When it rains it pours but most Americans hold their own umbrellas.

It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

My mom had not worked a day in her life, and then she woke up when I was 15 and found herself with four children, no job, no money. But she set out and made it all OK for us, and from that, I saw that there's no problem that can't be solved.

I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.

I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

If my one hand stops working, I won't stop living my life. I will start using my other hand. Similarly, if one part of my life goes wrong, I won't stop leading my life.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.