While I was playing, I started a company that didn’t work out. I got a taste of the business world and realized I’m not going to be a 9-to-5 guy in the office after football is over. When the opportunity came for television. I thought, ‘Let’s go for it,’ even though it was nerve-racking. I enjoyed it.
I don’t think it’s good to run on anger, but it’s really great when that’s the first couple of gallons in your tank – when you’ve had enough, and you’re just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.
So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me ‘Can you give me a lift?’ I said ‘Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it.’
You can try to make the right decision all the time, but it’s better to just make a decision. I have done wrong so many times, but nine times out of 10, I have learned from my failure. Don’t wait for something; just go for it.
When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and subjects, so I go for it. I even know technically what I want to. But in the case of documentary, the story comes to me.
I’m not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don’t have that at all – I don’t mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
I’m a very instinctive person. If my heart feels I should do something, I go for it.
If I’m going to do something, I might as well go for it.
I’d worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to go for it.
Obviously, if you get a chance to be in Alexander Payne’s movie, you’re going to go for it, or you’d be a crazy person.
It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
To any young women out there who might be thinking about taking up darts, I would just say, ‘Go for it.’
If at the end of May we don’t, we’ll reform, regroup, decide how we’re going to go about it, but if the task force can’t come up with the bill, I’m going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we’ve been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.
Drama school can’t make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years – you’re not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.
If I’m going to try to achieve something, regardless of how tough it might and the obstacles I face, I grit my teeth and go for it or I don’t do it at all. It’s about reaching the goals you’ve set with the opportunities you’ve been given.
If I see an opening, I go for it.
When you’re working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you’re doing.
I started every match knowing that this could be my day. It’s like in life; you can have a bad business idea, but then you have a new one the next day and you just go for it.
What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like it.
When I’m in a session with someone I don’t know, I like hanging out for a moment and talking and seeing if we can find some similarities in whatever conversation we’re having. The best thing is when you just go for it – just do something that feels good and makes you feel free in the moment.
I wasn’t that great in sports. I started doing children’s theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, ‘I can do this. It’s fun.’ I wanted to go for it, and I thought I’d like to make a living doing this.
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won’t and that’s what it’s all about.
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
There’s a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don’t think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.
I sort of trust myself as a musician to experiment more and to know when things are more effective when they’re spare and when a song can hold up to a lot of different instrumentations. So I’m more willing to go for it.
Just go for it. Don’t be afraid of trying new things. You have absolutely no idea what’s going to present itself to you. Don’t be frightened. Just buckle down and do whatever your heart desires.
And Cher, obviously, can never do anything other than go for it. She’s all in.
I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.
If you want to squat below your knees, go for it. It’s going to work the hamstrings, glutes and lower back more, and tighten up that booty.
If I wasn’t performing, I wasn’t alive. That’s the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said ‘Go for it, girl!’
I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I’m confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it.
‘Postcards’ was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, ‘You can do anything! Just go for it!’
I think it’s so important when you’re playing a character that you can’t judge the person you’re playing at all. It’s a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.
There’s one thing my dad taught me: don’t talk about politics, because you’ll never make anyone happy. Don’t even go for it.
If you can find your passion in life, hold on to that. Go for it and don’t be afraid to put in the work: things will work out for you.
I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid – fearful of how I am going to approach it – then I’ll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I’ll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.
If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you’ve got to get away from the norm. You’ve got to go for it.
When you’ve got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they’re going to wreck.
It’s so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you’re afraid of something, face it; go for it. You become a better human being.
When I started DJing, because everyone called me ‘Snake’ in my city first, I was like, ‘DJ Snake – OK, let’s go for it.’ The name sucks, but it’s too late now.
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary – it is a really attractive quality.
I’m a big fan of small business ownership. I think it’s the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
I’ve gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it’s endurance.
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
When I took on ‘Fargo,’ I thought, ‘Well, this is just a terrible idea. Four people will watch it, and they’ll hate-watch.’ But that allowed me to just go for it and take the risks.
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.
You get into a situation where your back’s up against the wall and you don’t have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.
If you’re passionate about something, go for it, because people are great at what they love and when they’re the happiest.
When you have a passion for something, it makes you excited to jump out of bed each day and go for it.
When I get moved to write a story, I don’t question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: ‘You can’t do that’, ‘You shouldn’t do that’. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.
You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you’ve previously heard or felt about it.
We do things differently. You don’t have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.
Something that’s good in the mini-culture of ‘Happy Endings’ is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what’s already great material – and also, we’re like, ‘Who is even watching this? Let’s just go for it.’
I learned that if you want something, you’ve got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.
