Jodie Turner-Smith Quotes

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

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

Don't feel sorry for me.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

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

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

I grew up as a man because I was by myself.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

Solitude is un-American.

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.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.