"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
- Michael Caine
Balance
"Act like a duck. Be calm on the surface, but paddle like hell underneath."
- Oliver Luck
Perseverance
"As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath."
- Alexander Skarsgard
Perseverance
"I wasn't a bitter person. I always try to look for the best in people. And a lot of pain, I guess, made me fight. It was just a way to release it. For me, martial arts is just a release. It's a way for me to just flow. Everywhere else in my life I'm like a duck out of water, but put me in that arena and I just swim."
- Frank Dux
Resilience
"Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water."
- Katherine Kelly
Perseverance
"I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago."
- David Knopfler
Adaptation
"For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water."
- Victoria Beckham
Adaptation
"A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!"
- Donovan
Creativity
"Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle."
- Ken Blanchard
Motivation
"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."
- James Whitcomb Riley
Awareness
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
- Douglas Adams
Awareness