Quotes About Risk

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural.

My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.

Crazy stuff happens when you start replying to scam emails. It's really difficult, and I highly recommend we do it.

When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.

I have deliberately stung myself with a small section of box jelly tentacle, and it felt like being burned by a steam iron. Larger stings can lead to cardiac arrest, and mind-blowing pain.

To be a stunt person you kind of have to have a screw loose like you do in wrestling.

Since I was a kid, I have always froze when I saw an action star perform a stunt defying the parameters of safety and fear.

There's no such thing as a great stunt if there's no danger involved.

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

Jockeys - it's so difficult It's completely insane. You're balancing on the balls of your feet on the spine of a horse and it's like you're piloting a missile It's amazing. I think jockeys are stunt men.

If the shot is going to be epic, if it's going to be awesome, and to make it epic and awesome you have to hit the ground and possibly hurt yourself, I choose to hit the ground and possibly hurt myself. Because in my silly stunt man mind, an epic shot that lives forever on film, I'll get over it in a couple of months!

I've been put under 8.5G in a stunt aeroplane. I felt all right. Well, I lost my vision, but I was still conscious.

As a performer, the more I scare the stunt coordinator, the better.