Quotes About Risk

You can't let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

There are different parts of us. You want to feel safe but you want to also feel challenged.

I could stop and live carefully but that's ridiculous. I don't want to live carefully.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.

I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

I like being put in embarrassing positions because it's the reason why I wanted to be an actress. I want to try different things and things that make me uncomfortable.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?