Quotes About Risk

Guide' is not just my most iconic film. It is also Dev's most celebrated work. But I almost didn't do 'Guide.'

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

When I first got pitched on Uber, I thought it was the dumbest idea ever.

You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.

The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

You don't want to miss out on something and feel like an idiot.

You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

Do I feel confident about my health? I don't think that anybody ever should feel confident about their health if they are 72 years old, and getting ready to go in to the ring. If they are then they are probably some kind of an idiot and that is more than likely what I am.

As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.

If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.

I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

It's hard when you have a lot of naysayers to know when they might be right or when to ignore them and go with your gut and do something that may seem risky.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

Like other forms of gambling, wagering on the Internet isn't illegal because it's bad. It's bad because we've chosen to make it illegal.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.

What is at risk are the lives of hard-working Salvadoran families. In fact, unchecked violence was one of the main drivers of immigration from this country to the United States.