Playing It Smart Quotes

I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.

The striking game is always a lottery game, so I prefer to take the safe situation. Submission is the best for me. I'm the guy looking for it all the time.

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

Sometimes I can be a little bit cautious in keeping the ball, playing a safe pass rather than an adventurous one.

An actor always goes to the safe side.

I will take less risks. When the options aren't appearing, I will clear it into the stands or play a long ball up front.

Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bold one.

Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.

I have not always been a risk taker.