Succumbed Quotes

On becoming Dame Helen Mirren in 2003, "In England, it`s a big deal. I do feel it`s a great honor. But I had to think about it quite seriously for a couple of weeks. It does sort of squash you into the establishment thing. In the end, my baser feelings got the better of me. I succumbed to pride."

On her disgust of how so many of her Hollywood peers have succumbed to using face-paralyzing Botox: "It`s not just women on film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone`s face, someone`s body who`d had children and I think they`re the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can`t move."

(Commenting on the death of his mother, who succumbed to cancer in 1983): "I thought my parents were invincible. It never occurred to me she would die."

I thought we mentally succumbed to fatigue in the beginning of the game because we played last night and that`s what I told the team. We were the more aggressive team in the second half and got ourselves back in the game. We just didn`t have enough to pull it off.

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.