Oliver Kahn Quotes

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

I feel a little stronger than people perceive me.

I've always been an incredibly strong person, and I've also been underestimated.

I've discovered that I am as strong as I thought.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

I've never seen myself as a victim because of my physicality. If I did play that game, I wouldn't be the comedian that I am.

Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.

Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

I couldn't care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.

I'm stronger than I think I am.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.