Claudia Black Quotes:

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

source: - Claudia Black (2011). “The Truth Begins with You: Reflections to Heal Your Spirit”, p.70, Central Recovery Press, LLC

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Trust Issues, Trust And Believe

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

Topics: Respect, People, Treats

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Topics: Self, Care, Saying No, Self Care

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

source: - Claudia Black (2009). “Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear”, p.1, Hazelden Publishing

Topics: Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving

It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

source: - Claudia Black (2009). “Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear”, p.47, Hazelden Publishing

Topics: Childhood, Honest, Authenticity

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

Topics: Voice, Absurd, Sinister, Predatory

I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.

Topics: Jobs, Thinking, People

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all

Topics: Running, Ideas, My Boyfriend, Escorting, Black Diamonds

I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

Topics: People, World, Want, Most Favorite

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again

Topics: Morning, Home, Night

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

Topics: People, Unemployment, Actors, Great Actors

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

Topics: Home, Thinking, Way

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

source: - Claudia Black (2009). “Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear”, p.17, Hazelden Publishing

Topics: Past, Silence, Survival, Free Yourself, Compliance

You always have choices no matter what.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Choices, Matter, No Matter What

You are perfectly imperfect.

Topics: Imperfect

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

source: - Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2016.

Topics: Giving, Humanity, Shadow

Listen to your bodies. You are constantly receiving information from your body about how to care for it and yourself.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Receiving, Body, Care

Only place yourself around people who love your strengths and are also safe to be vulnerable around - you'll need both power and vulnerability in womanhood.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Love You, People, Needs

Never underestimate the healing power of breath.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Healing, Underestimate, Breaths

Never trash-talk yourself or others. Stay curious. Speak your truth.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Speak, Trash Talk, Curious

Be your best you, and when things get tough always know that you can hand it all over to the universe and it will support you.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Hands, Support You, Tough, When Things Get Tough

It is a radical act to believe in and like yourself.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Believe, Like You, Radical

Whatever you want that others in your life can't give you, ask yourself how you can give it to yourself.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Giving, Want, Asks

Always be accountable. Forgive and let go.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Letting Go, Forgiving

I have phenomenal mentors who guide me to maximize my effectiveness.

source: - Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Effectiveness, Mentor, Guides, Guide Me

Trust your gut. Respect and show up for yourself or no one else will. Show up for your friends too.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Trust Your Gut, Shows, Guts

Build other females up and only compete with yourself.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Female

Sleep is underrated. Sleep!

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Sleep, Underrated

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Mother, Race, Skin Color, Mother Tongue

I'm passionate about transformation.

source: - Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Passionate, Transformation

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Sisterhood, Use, Resources

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

source: - Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Killing It

Stop eating junk. Be a good listener and a loyal friend.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment, On Trusting Your Gut, Investigating Your Shadows, Never Trash-talking Yourself, Raising Heart-centered Men, and Supporting Renewable Energy". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Loyal Friend, Good Listener

Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.

source: - "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Reuse, Renewable Energy

I share pretty much everything I have with those in need around me.

source: - Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Those In Need

Love is never giving up and yet a lot of surrender. Self-care. Truth. Trust. Openness. Growth. Courage. Faith. Collaboration. Compassion. Communication. Affection. Support. Passion. Joy. Warmth. Mindfulness. Rigorous self-work. Sympatico, empathy, flow. Forgiveness.

Topics: Self Care

Leave every environment you go into better than you found it.

source: - Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Better Than You