Risk Quotes - Page 104

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

I always think that when we actors talk about the films that we've done we run the risk of destroying everything.

In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the time that we're suffering and we don't really know how to think about, I think that puts certain things at risk.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.

I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Don't obsess over risks. Keep your focus on positive outcomes.