Quotes About Risk

People don't think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral. They think it is immoral and therefore dangerous.

When you're young, you're immortal, or so you think, and you never think there will be problems ahead.

As someone who flew in lots of airshows in his 20s, I know what immortal feels like.

Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.

The asbestos problem impacts everyone.

Carrying law enforcement ID connects you with those who do the same and separates you from those who don't. There's an implicit trust that you will serve even if means risking your life.

You're completely putting yourself on the line when you're in drag. They're either going to love you or they're going to hate you, but the most important part is having fun.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

Being humble is one of the most important things, and not being afraid to put yourself out there is important. I think really successful chefs put themselves out there on a daily basis.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a little more forgiving.

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking 10 seconds longer.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

When you make a film, you never know how it will turn out, especially when you improvise it.

When you improvise alone, you don't risk a lot, but doing an improvisation when you are two is even more difficult because you need to listen exactly to understand what is going to happen.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

The game of love, in my opinion, is a lottery.

You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show?'