Top 140 Risky Quotes

If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards.

Film-making, in itself, is such a risky, costly-yet-uncertain business that despite being wealthy, 90 percent of people don’t become producers.

I’m not one of those people who’s so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It’s kind of risky writing a memoir when you’re really part of a larger universe.

In the periods of my career when I stopped passing the ball forward or when I stopped looking for the risky pass that might open up a defence, the consequences were the same. The manager stopped picking me. I got back into the team when I went back to doing it the way he wanted.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

My best event is probably… it actually varies day by day. But the high bar – it’s the most fun for me. A lot of people like it. It’s risky and dangerous. I like the adrenaline rush.

As pro snowboarders, skiers, etc., we all know that what we do is risky.

I don’t understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that – hello – we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn’t end up head-first in the sandpit.

People think rationally that the world really is more risky. Imagine in 2008 that investors thought there was a 10% chance we’d have a depression. That would partly justify the drop in prices.

It’s risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece of storytelling that also happened to explode the myth of American affluence.

High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency.

There’s nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

I don’t have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I’m willing to risk quite a lot – as a comedian, you’re always risking a lot. You’re risking failure, especially if you’re improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

I’m not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.

I sketched out what I believed to be my optimal strategy for ‘Jeopardy:’ Play fast, build a stack, bet big, and hope for the best. In my mind, playing a seemingly risky game actually minimizes my chances of losing.

You know who’s messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that’s a very risky position.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it’s risky.

The moonsault – I climb to the top rope and back flip onto my opponent. It’s very effective but can be risky if my opponent moves out of the way.

I am very conservative. I don’t invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

I don’t mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don’t have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy.

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I’m risky? I’m definitely not risky.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.

The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let’s be honest. It isn’t the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field.

I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous.

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a ’70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

You don’t get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.

I didn’t really discover ‘Risky Business’ until later in life because I was so young when it came out.

When people say ‘that’s risky,’ or when the odds are not in my favor, I’m more motivated than ever.

It’s a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself.

Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species – monkeys and other creatures – freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that’s not always for their benefit.

A global economy that is levering up, while unable to generate enough aggregate demand to achieve potential growth, is on a risky path.

I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters – not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.

Donald Trump is a guy who has called for privatization of the V.A. That is something that is overwhelmingly rejected by America’s veterans. They do not want to go down that path. Do they want improvement? Sure they do. But they don’t want risky or radical.

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from ‘Life is Beautiful’. Instead, I spent more money than I had on ‘Pinocchio’, a very risky film.

I think funding risky projects is very important.

Following a trend too closely is a risky thing. If not properly executed, you could easily end up looking uncomfortable, over-styled, and downright foolish.

To have all of these jumps in my arsenal is very beneficial. I can always alter my program so I can either play it safe, or I can play it risky with high reward. It depends on what I feel like I need that day.

I’ve seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don’t feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

Much of the blame for the Great Recession lies with abuses in the housing market – namely the creation of risky and unsustainable home loans that were packaged and sold as quality investments around the globe.

The movie I’m really excited about that I had really fun doing is ‘Feed the Dog.’ It’s with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It’s really fun. It’s raunchy, like ‘Superbad’ meets ‘Risky Business,’ kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.

The financial crisis was linked to the fact that banks had excessive leverage and too many risky assets. The solution is not to try to dictate to banks what they can do or not do, but to require them to strengthen their capital to absorb potential losses and hold less risky assets.

I always look for projects that are risky and ones that want to do something unique. If audiences don’t like it, you feel good knowing that you were brave enough to do something original. If they do like it, you feel like everyone is rewarded, because we all got to see something new.

I went to Sundance Labs, and I definitely watched my male peers from there have very different meetings than I was having, very different outcomes. You could tell there was a feeling that a young male director had this exciting potential and a young female director was risky.

What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.

Piracy was risky business, and injuries were commonplace; a single lost limb or gouged-out eye could end a pirate’s career. To encourage pirates not to hesitate in battle – and out of a sense of fairness – many pirate crews compensated wounded crewmen in predetermined amounts.

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