Nigel Kennedy Quotes

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable.

You're always reinventing yourself and looking for what's new and what you haven't done before.

I've been lucky enough to do a lot of very interesting things, and every time, I've been like, 'I want to put everything into this because I want to see how far I can go with it.'

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

I want to challenge myself with each project.

I enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways.

I try to do different things, beautiful things, to play the game the way I see it, and I think I'm doing it pretty well.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I want to challenge myself, challenge my styles.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.