Taylor Schilling Quotes

To move past fear is a cliche.

Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

'Beyond Glory' is responsible for this wave that I've been fortunate enough to ride for the last few years. And that I did primarily because I didn't know what else to do. You might say I did it out of desperation.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

I definitely try to live my life in a very fearless manner, but there are no other sports that you jump from a three-story building and land on your hands! Diving is a lot like life. You just have to trust in what you know and allow it to happen.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.

Just try new things. Don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

If it scares me, it means I'm supposed to do it.