"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." ― John Irving Topic(s): Courage More From John Irving "I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin." "I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write." "To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense." More In Courage "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."― Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn’t want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn’t have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It’s funny because I’d always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn’t think that I would be in the movies."― Kristen Stewart "Courage is found in unlikely places."― J. R. R. Tolkien