Quotes About Risk

When somebody offers you a role which you might not have done for a long time then it becomes a challenge for you.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

We know that the American people are only safe because our law enforcement officers face danger. We can only rest easy because they never rest. And we can only dwell in peace because they stand between us and the danger.

But in fact it makes a lot of sense to have a Blue Lives Matter movement because officers are putting their lives on the line every day.

I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.

Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.

A lot of people don't want to know, but I'd like to know if I have a 10 percent or a 90 percent chance of developing Alzheimer's some day. If I know I'm likely to develop it, I'm certainly going to start looking around right now to find if there is something that I can do to offset it.

Oftentimes the easy decision and comfortable decision is not the right one.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things.

I had a couple of investments that didn't go my way. That's why I laugh at guys who say, 'Oh, I'm going to open a clothing line. I'm going to start a restaurant.'

The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.

I moved to L.A. at 17, and for the fist time, I had to realize that if I run out of money, I'm moving back to Ohio - and I didn't want to do that at all.

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

Taking a risk is always frightening, but I gave myself a set period of time and had enough money to see me through. I operated from the belief that things would be okay, that if I wasn't successful I would find myself a job, but either way, I would be fine.

There isn't a route to success. Make a film. If people like it, you'll be okay. There is no route that I know of.

I am glad I tried something different with 'A Flying Jatt'. I will be okay even if I failed with this film.

Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.

It's going to hurt if I fall. I don't want to deal with that, I want to prove that it can be done for a long life, until I'm an old man.

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.