Quotes About Daring

That's all I can be is fearless.

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

You've got to be fearless.

I like to think of myself as fearless.

I am a fearless filmmaker.

I was always fearless.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

I want to look feminine, powerful, sexy and bold.

I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

No other fighter's doing what I'm doing, no other fighter is daring to do what I'm doing.

I wanted to have some disdain in the way that she fights sometimes, because I think Elektra is a bit careless, like, 'You're in my way - get out.'

I feel that's what a real champion needs to be doing, dare to take on the best fights possible.

Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

I say, 'Why not' to everything.

Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?

One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

I live a wild and crazy life.

There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.