Laurence Olivier Quotes

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I don't shy away from any questions. I'm not scared of any question. I'll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism... I'm not scared of people disliking me.

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

I'm willing to go further than other people on camera.

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I intend to stay dangerous.

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

My approach is just fearless. I'm not afraid to try anything.