Sufjan Stevens Quotes

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

Enrique Muricano isn't afraid to try something new, to take risks, to possibly fail, and in turn, set himself apart.

You can't play scared.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

Boldness in itself is genius.

Boldness be my friend.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Fate loves the fearless.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Fortune and love favor the brave.