Quotes About Risk

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

I've chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were challenging and a little bit scary.

I put the heart attack down to 66 cigarettes a day.

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero.

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

When we started 'Arrow,' there weren't really a lot of superhero shows in general. And it was a burden on us because it was, 'Are you going to fail or succeed?' And now they're everywhere.

If you've learned anything from the modern superhero myth, if you see a bat around and it bites you, you have a 75 percent chance of ending up a superhero. Otherwise, you'll probably get really sick. But it'd be cool to be a superhero. You don't need to be too afraid.

Mutual funds with superior performance records often falter.

Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

And yes, there's a big difference between playing a negative role in a family drama and a supernatural show. Being an actor, I have to take such risks.

As an artist, I am very proud of 'Ek Thi Daayan.' It was a supernatural flick and a huge risk, since not many films are made like that.

A vote to leave would be a leap into the dark that would put our status as a science superpower at risk. That is why I will be joining Boris in making a positive case for Britain's future in a reformed E.U.

One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn't necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.

There is no assurity that something will be a success because it is a remake or because it does/does not have a superstar.

When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.

We are very optimistic about our opportunities in China. Our toothbrushes continue to sell very well, while the growth of private hospitals diminishes the risk of government preferring domestic suppliers.