Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experiences that many women have gone through. But I ain't down yet.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I've always believed in survival.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.

I embraced every struggle because it made me the fighter I was.

You should fight for every breath you have.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.