Mark Hunt Quotes

After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

If you got talent, you just have to do you.

I feel so honored that I've had the opportunity to share my story with so many people.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

I always said that if I had the platform and the opportunity to share my story and make it easier for others, I would - so that, in a way, I can be the role model that I was looking for as a kid.

You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

My films, sometimes, have my own reflections of life. They have life lessons I've had that I put across in a humorous or satirical way.

We only get better by telling our real story. That's the only way to be.

Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can't play this game forever. When I'm finished, maybe I'll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome.

There's nothing better than a personal story.

However, I've learned in my life that life is about living authentically. And for me, the best moments as I look back in my life, that I became the best versions of Jeannie that I'm proud of, was when I was honest with myself.

I think my genre is more 'reality rap'; I talk about my life and the struggles that I've been through.

Every day I learn something new, and, you know, you go through life's experiences, and if you can bring every experience at some point somewhere in every drama or every story that you have to portray, you will come across an emotion or a feeling you have had some point in your life.

Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

I want to share the experiences I've had.

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

As long as what you do reaches out to people, I don't think there's any reason to stop yourself from doing anything.

When I first became "controversial" and the fanbase became divided it was backwards! Because normally in our industry, when you hear a certain noise, you become a bad guy. My job wasn't to do that, which was a bit of wandering into no man's land. At the WWE, it's our job to tell stories. I'm one of the few characters who can be in the WWE and can then take that experience and spin it out to real-life lessons. When you can clock into work and make a difference in someone else's life, that's a good way to make a living.

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.