Quotes About Risk

The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

High flops like K-Q-9, K-J-10 or Q-J-8 are dangerous to pocket aces. That's because these flops will more likely to connect with the range of hands that your opponents will typically play, like 10-J, K-Q, 10-10, or 9-10.

About 25 years ago, my wife and I bought Kenny Loggins' house in Santa Barbara. It was way out of our price range, but we said, 'Screw it, let's go for it.' We've raised our family there. We overextended ourselves at the perfect time in our lives, and it worked out for the best.

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

I experimented with different roles, but they didn't work, despite being fantastic films like 'Naa Autograph,' 'Sambo Siva Sambo,' 'Neninthe'... etc. I was very satisfied doing those roles. Had those films worked for me, I perhaps would not have tried anything different further. I like to experiment once in a while if it works.

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'

Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

If you're in P10 and you're getting caught from behind from P11 or the other way round... there's that one point to gain... and there's not really a lot to lose.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

I'm a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

I drive every day. I like to gamble.

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.