Quotes About Risk

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.

I went to Villarreal for 30% less than I could have earned in Mexico.

I've swum with dolphins in Mozambique and with bull sharks off Mexico. They didn't tell me how dangerous the sharks were until after I got out.

Michael Waltrip

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

Mickey and the Bear' was the scariest choice I've made in my career because I feel pretty safe in the world of comedy and everything else, but I don't feel safe in deep, dark, scary roles that I took on like 'Mickey and the Bear.'

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

No bank should be too big or too complex to fail, but almost any bank is too big to liquidate quickly, particularly in the midst of a crisis.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

Military firefighters put their lives on the line each day - not just to defend our country, but also to selflessly defend their fellow servicemembers.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

I'll fight anyone for enough money. Give me half a million dollars.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.

I blew a chance at a million dollars.

When I think about doing something, I think: Will I survive a million out of a million times?

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.

In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.

There's not millions of dollars riding behind something - so I think a lot of people took chances on me and cast me in roles in Chicago that I never would have gotten cast in possibly if I had come to New York right away. I got to be the not-your-typical-choice for a role.