Anne Bancroft Quotes

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!

Taking risks gives me energy.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.

People need to take a little bit more risk.

It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.

I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. You won't find glory at the center of safety, but at its edge. You won't find love at a place where you are covered, but in the space where you are exposed. You gotta take some risks. You have to not only pick up the dice, but roll'em. So go ahead, take the gamble. You have nothing to lose except the chance to win. Life is not long enough to spend it on the sidelines.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.