Quotes About Boldness

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

I'm the type of person, I'll fight whoever.

When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'

Whoever you put in front of me, I'm not going to back down.

You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

Ultimately, whenever you have a new opportunity, do it with gusto and fun and be wholly indifferent to what other people think.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

TV isn't a wide medium when it comes to boldness on the small screen because of the audience. It reaches out to the audience but keeping the traditions intact.

If I have a wide open look, I'm going to shoot it.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

If a wig is funny when it's two feet tall, why not make it three feet tall? Or ten?

When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.