Personal Risk Quotes

I understand my limits. I'm not going to go out there just to fight for money and to put on a show for people at the risk of my own health. I won't do that.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

I always knew about the risks I was taking. Every year, someone you knew was killed racing. You had to ask yourself, do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you're prepared to take that risk?

To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

I served my country; I did that. I was in the C.I.A., and I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I love this country with every part of my body, and I was willing to risk my body and my family for it. But I wake up in a country I don't understand anymore.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

I have to tell you, in my judgment, some of us sitting here today will not come back alive from this campaign. I want you to think about it.

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?

When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.