Danny DeVito Quotes

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

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.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

I always do something that I've never done before.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

It doesn't ever hurt to try different stuff.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

I am always looking for projects that make me step out of my comfort zone and do something different.

My advice is try something you've never done before or maybe something that's not as popular.

What's on the edge? What's next? That's where I think I do my best work - if I push my whole team to the edge.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.