Quotes About Risk

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

I love motocross and would love to have a go but I can't go anywhere near them in case I got injured.

I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.

As an actor, I have always believed that content is the kin,g and I have always put my neck on the line to choose cinema that is off the beaten track.

Kids' brains are developing. Their heads are a larger part of their body, and their necks are not as strong as adults' necks. So kids may be at a greater risk of head and brain injuries than adults.

I don't have a problem with dives out of the ring, but there are a lot of these guys who don't have anything to fall back on, and they're not making any money doing it. A lot of these guys go out there, and they're gonna break their necks at 23 years old doing things they shouldn't be doing.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I always played on my nerves - on the edge.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.

At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.

I love living without a net.

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

There's a certain safety net that you find in the military that, as dangerous as it is, you know they're going to provide you a meal and a home no matter what happens.