Joe Morton Quotes

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.

I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

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

If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

I have been in the most dangerous of places just in order to survive. An intelligent man would stay in a safe place to survive.

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

That is the only way to survive in the Premier League. Every game is a battle, whether you're playing the top team or the one at the bottom of the table.

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

In the game of 'Survivor,' there is no time for regrets.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

The competition is pretty rough these days.