Quotes About Risk

Once you start, if you're still afraid, don't do it. Either it's too hard, or you're not prepared. I've never done something when I was scared.

I like to get the blood flowing and get as loose as I can possibly get. It's not very difficult to hurt yourself out there if you aren't prepared, especially in a Fatal Four Way.

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

The thing is you never know what you can do until you try it. Even if you try, you still may fail, but that's when you have to go and prepare because if you're not prepared, you're preparing to fail.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

I've always wanted to try presenting and see what it was like, and you know, it could be a huge mistake.

I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very scary.

Cabaret presents different challenges, as it is all on me. I love having the freedom to say anything you want - do anything you want. It is a lot of responsibility, and if it works, you get all the kudos, and if not - all the blame.

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

As a gay man, there are certain places that I avoid. When I go to China, I lie and pretend I'm not married, which is really sad - I leave my ring at home. But I'm not willing to risk my safety in a country that could cause me no end of problems or where it's illegal to be gay. I'm very aware of the places I can travel to safely and where I cannot.

I was on my way to law school when a friend of mine at an extras agency said, 'Do you want to come to this movie set and get paid $100 bucks a day to pretend you're at a party?' And I was like, 'Yeah, summer holiday, let's do it.' So I went, and on lunch, the writer asked me to audition for a role, and I got it.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.