Quotes About Risk

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

I applied to only one drama school - if I didn't get in, I would give up the whole notion. That's how much of a chance I was giving myself.

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.

If a gig goes badly, my main worry is, 'Will these people come back?' Because that will affect my ability to pay the mortgage - but nowadays, I don't really mind what happens, as I think if it all goes wrong for real, you still have to go with it.

In war time, nowhere is safe.

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.

Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

For the men, they are more of a risk taker, and for the women, they are more nurturing and more details. So the combination of the men and women is very good for business.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.

Many climbers use the term 'objective hazard; to denote something they aren't to be held accountable for. I held myself accountable for the mistakes I made over the years.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

I... remember taking all kinds of risks and at the time being oblivious to danger and really thinking back then how I could really do anything that I wanted.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I'm addicted to the heightened awareness I get when there's a death consequence. My vision is sharper, and I'm more sensitive to sounds, my sense of balance and the beauty all around me. A lot of my creativity comes from this nearly insane obsession. Something sparkles in my mind, and then nothing else in life matters.

When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.