Justin Theroux Quotes

It's like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it, nine times out of then I'll say yes imminently because then I can worry after I've said yes!

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.

As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

Sometimes, there's a fine line between bravery and utter stupidity. The day I decided to climb into a boxing ring for a professional fight was probably on the side of stupidity.

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

You just can't be scared to do things that you think are mistakes.

Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.