Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

I wish I were braver, although I try.

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

I'm not brave at all.

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride.

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I'd resolved to cut my hair for 'Les Mis' and to do it on-screen to make it feel real. And then the morning came, and I was shaking like a leaf. I almost couldn't do my job. When it was over, I went to the darkest corner of my trailer and I looked in the mirror, and I saw my little brother! But eventually I felt like the coolest girl in the world.

I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.