Maggie Cheung Quotes

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

I had to grow a very thick skin very fast. I think that's where the GC came about.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I am what survives of me.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.

I was not used to criticism.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.