Karyn Kusama Quotes

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

All the things I went through, my losses, those really helped me.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

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

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.