Quotes About Risk

If there's a partnership in doing a dangerous thing, there's a real sense of bonding. Plus, the feeling of freedom is sexy.

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.

In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders' eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.

I moved to Madrid with 200 bucks in my pocket to see what was going to happen. Of course, I didn't know that 200 euros was nothing, because in Cuba, 200 was a lot, and the money I had been saving from my movies.

Each time you buy a used game, this is money that doesn't go into the pocket of the people that took the risk to create this, to finance it, to develop it.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I'm attracted to things that make a point or have a certain point of view, but it's not a conscious thing that I decide to do every morning. Unconsciously, what I like has a social commentary in it, or it's about race, or it's risky to do. That's what I like doing.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.

When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.

You don't get points for leaving the chin open.

Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence, and I drive quickly sometimes.

I know everyone claims that their cast is 'really close,' but I think the bond we share in 'Newsies' is unique. In the show, these boys risk everything in the name of brotherhood, and I feel that same way about the guys in my cast.

I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.

We believe addressing the risk of climate change is a global issue.

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

My first climb was on lead; there were pitons, no bolts.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

Many of my hardest climbs were done with one or both feet barefoot.

I know I'm not a cutting-edge free climber. Free soloing, I'm comfortable to 5.10-plus or 5.11a. But if I was a grade higher I could do some amazing things.

Climbing is what I do.

Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected not to come back alive.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

You never know when you're going to have to fight or take your clothes off.