Survival Skill Quotes

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

I've built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Singing in a restaurant is very demeaning and humiliating but you learn from it, because people aren't there for a show, they're there to eat.

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

Being resilient is the essence of my life.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.