Kim Basinger Quotes

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.

One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.

You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die.

Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

I've been a victor of circumstance.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.

I've been showing up late and dirty all my life.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?