Quotes About Risk

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

My becoming an actor was a massive shift for me, and a terrifying one.

The whole Brexit saga is, in my view, one big, terrifying leap in the dark.

For a journalist working in Gaza or the Occupied Territories, a PRESS badge offers limited protection at best. For a Palestinian journalist, it clearly offers none at all.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.

When doing a remake, you're on safer territory. You know you cannot go absolutely wrong. But how right it goes depends on various factors like casting and the way you adapt the film.

As for 'Bigg Boss,' it's a risky territory, I don't know what would happen if I lose my temper or someone does in the house; or they try to get into personal space. It might sound crazy but I feel I am old fashioned and conventional that way.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Can any nation claim, guarantee, that there will be no terror strike?

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

If citizens and those in the communities where Islamic terror festers are willing to take the risk of engaging and reporting suspicions, authorities have an absolute obligation to take their concerns seriously.

The most dangerous thing about terrorism is the over-reaction to it.