Quotes About Risk

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Normal people don't become stand-up comedians.

Normally movies have the same people they use over and over for everything. It's called typecasting. They don't like to take chances. They'll go with the guy they had before.

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

I'm not normally very adventurous with food.

Sometimes, when comedians get success, they don't do as much weird stuff as they normally do.

There are probably people who think I'm crazy for doing what I'm doing and they're probably right. Compared to them, compared to the way they think and feel and are so bound by norms then I am crazy, but insane or enlightened, it's all pretty close. I would say it's just how you look at it.

It's hard to take people seriously who say you're totally irresponsible if you go out and climb mountains when you have kids, because they clearly don't understand the circumstances. You can't impose your own acceptance of risk on other people - that's not fair.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

If I'm not completely daunted, I'm not interested.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.

I like not knowing what's around the corner. It's always been that way, and maybe that's one of the reasons why I'm an actor.

I miss the fears. I miss that. I miss going over the middle and not knowing if I'm going to make that play. I think that's the part of the game you miss the most, that excitement of it. Then you think of the physical part as a retired player and I'm like, 'hell no.'

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

I think 'Neram' gave me the right break. At that time, I felt that the film was experimental and risky, but the film's success made people take note of me.

I've taken fights on one-day notice.

You have to make bold choices to be noticed.

I've noticed one in five ideas never amount to anything.