Jena Malone Quotes

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

There are ills that happen for good.

They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks.

There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.

As one who has been in hard situations, I believe that I know how to deal with complicated and hard situations.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Born in the UK, brought up in Ghana, it was a sort of childhood of hardship and difficulty.

I've been in a lot of unfavourable situations growing up, so I know what it's like to need help.

If something happens and you're behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work.

When you come from Poland, you have nothing. Your mother and father are working. You have only a bed for sleep. You have a kitchen, and that's it. You must fight.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.