Quotes About Risk

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

You haven't lived until you've died in California

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

Business is the most exciting game.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.

Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we'll kill everything.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.

He can be lethal death.

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.