Victoria Clark Quotes

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

While I don't necessarily believe the cliche that 'everything happens for a reason,' I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I've experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life's challenges.

'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

For me, my life is a journey.

I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?