Safe Choices Quotes

The boring, safe choices never stand out. Take risks!

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

I love to try the local food wherever I am. But I'm not that adventurous when it comes to eating. I prefer to be safe. I have failed at eating some daring food.

I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

I don't want to just make the safe, easy commercial films.

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

You just can't think of safe options always. You have to accept challenges head on.

I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought about the disease. That education helped my generation make smarter choices about the way we protected ourselves.

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.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

The holidays are a time to - not quite play it safe - but play it classic. You don't want to be the girl in a head-to-toe sequin look, where you look like you should be an ornament on the tree.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college.

Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.