Quotes About Risk

I've never come from a lot of money. Going to college in New York was already a financial struggle for both my family and me, so to drop out and immediately put my faith in my drag career was a huge risk to take.

What I was really into as a kid, anything that drove my mother crazy or made her nervous, and not much has changed.

There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.

I think it's a dying thing these days, taking a chance. People don't always do it because they have comfort. And, you know, there might be something else out there you can do that makes you happier than the situation you're in.

Live each day as if you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

Yes, I am passionate about films but along with passion I am very calculative. When you put your hard earned money, you have to be calculative.

Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

There's a difference between having an edge and being stupid.

You have to try things! You have to jump off the edge and run through your fear.

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

At the end of the day, don't nobody go into business to lose money.

I put my own money up when I have a vision and believe in something. If you want a company to put money into something, then most of the time, they want to water your project down. When it's your money, it's your vision from the beginning to the end result.

Advocating war is easier when you and your family are not endangered by it.

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.

Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.