Quotes About Risk

I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.

I too once thought of producing a musical play on Tyagaraja. People fell at my feet, saying please don't commit such a folly.

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.

A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.

Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.

What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Risk taking in business is one thing. Risk taking in your personal safety is a different thing.

It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

I've done a lot of different things in my life. I've parachuted, done some deep-sea diving. Inasmuch as it's safe to do, I can do it.

I was so young when I started, my taste has changed and developed, and I've gone from being a little bit safe to trying different things.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.

If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right movie for you to be making.

Every time there's a dip in the market, we buy. If you don't buy the land right, it ain't going to work.

My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

I wish we had been doing diplomatic security in Benghazi. I can tell you that Benghazi would not have happened if Blackwater were on the job there.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.