Quotes About Risk

I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation that people want to see.

My doctor told me that I would have had a heart attack on stage.

Theatres, stages are dangerous places.

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.

When I started the label, I stopped racing. Even though I have a better chance of getting hurt walking outside and falling down the stairs, if I had gotten injured on the racetrack, people would be going, 'What is this guy doing?' So I had to grow up a little bit.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.

Most times, life or death is the highest stake a person can play for.

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

Premium hands are simply few and far between when large pots are at stake.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Let's be honest, I'm not a guy who is going to grind out $10 entry fantasy matches. If I'm going to compete, I want to play at the highest stakes.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.