Quotes About Daring

It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

Once, when I was 5 years old, a little girl who lived next door to my grandmother dared me to put on a muumuu and run across a nearby parking lot. So I did. I threw it on, hiked it up in one hand, and ran like hell. It felt amazing to be in a dress. But suddenly my grandmother appeared, a look of horror on her face.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

The thrills of riding a bike and having to do speedy stunts are something I've discovered I love like crazy.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

When I was an actor, I liked throwing a challenge to other actors.

We have a reputation here in the Pelican State for daring to be different. We live in parishes, not counties. We spend our holidays throwing beads at people lining the street. We cook differently. We speak differently - we spell differently. There is no place in the country that compares to Louisiana.

Daring to make films of any kind and thus invite the possibility of ridicule was an internal battle of mine for many years as I worked on the screenplay for what would become 'Dear White People' beginning at the end of George W. Bush's second term.

I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.

I am completely prepared to let the tiger out of its cage in Sochi and see what happens.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

We should do something when people think it's crazy, if people say it's good it means someone is doing it already. —Hajime Mitari, president of Canon

Beauty is about picturing God's unchanging goodness and daring to bring it into my own small, dusty days.

Caution is good, but sometimes courage is better.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

But I fell back on those immortal words at the base of all good decision making: Fuck it.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.

Fortune followed the brave...take risks, you will also get suitably rewarded!

My audience is my audience and everybody in it forms an alliance every night. You perform for the entire crowd -- it's not about singling anyone out. And if your work is very, very daring and interesting, then smart people come to it, whether they're gay, straight, black, white, men, women. I mean, you gotta be able to get underneath what's really going on culturally, and then you're always gonna have a smart audience sitting in front of you.

Let's punk this bitch. - Nisha