Daniel Espinosa Quotes

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

I completely follow my gut and do what I like doing. I have become impulsive in a good way. I am taking creative risks as an actor.

I believe that inspiration is one of the most powerful forces in life. In career and in relationships, it's worth searching for the path that inspires you. Pursuing such a path often entails risk - it may involve making a big change in what you're doing - but the career risks we regret most are the ones we don't take.