Robert David Hall Quotes

I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.

I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

After 'Spring Awakening,' I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow.

I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.

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.'

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you.

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

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

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

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.

It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange or silly. If I can impart that same wisdom to other folks - no matter what age - it would be an honor.