Robert Plant Quotes

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

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.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

I am a strange creature. I want to challenge myself and keep people guessing with the roles I take.

The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his way down, hopefully. That's the kind of people I really enjoy working with. Playing safe isn't much fun. I like danger. It's controlled danger, always, and that's why I hope I don't lure too many good actors down into the pits with me, because I hope they maintain their own unique talents.

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

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.

If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.