Quotes About Risk

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.

Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."

Who wants a bag of bones?" he said, with absolute sincerity. "I don't want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I'm bedding.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.

To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.

Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.

I'm pretty conservative on a lot of things. I don't want to get hurt.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

Everyone is saying that I'm retiring, but I want to solemnly declare, that I don't want to retire, I just want to do things a bit less dangerous to my body, less dangerous action.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

I've been sky-diving three times. I would go right now if someone told me the plane was about to take off. I love it. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I don't want to go bungee-jumping.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?