Rod Serling Quotes

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

If you are looking for someone to break the mold, the last guy you look to is Robert Mueller.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

I've always been willing to take risks and chances. Often I'm on talk shows and hosts will ask 'How do you feel about it, when people say you're controversial?' And I say that, 'I think if I stop being controversial, I wouldn't be doing my job.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

I would tell myself, "Love yourself and don't be afraid to take risks." I was often afraid to take risks, socially, because I was young and a little more shy and still figuring out who I wanted to be. Sometimes I look back and think, "I should have just been bolder and more confident."

You either decide to take the easy way out, which means you're only going to disappoint yourself and everybody else, or you take the risk right now of being a fool, which is the only way you'll end up being exhilarated later on when you actually watch the movie.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

You can't be afraid to play. Commit to play and you live with the results.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

I'm not someone who is scared of doing things out of the box.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.