Charlize Theron Quotes

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.

Whatever it is that you are doing as an actor, if it frightens you, if you're scared of it, you need to do it.

I think that we, as writers, get excited by risk. When we are feeling comfortable and familiar, I wouldn't say that we get bored, but the energy in the room gets flat. When we're most excited and when the show is the most fun, it's when we're duking things out.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

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

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

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.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

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.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

With innovation, there is always risk.

I'm not great at trying new things.

I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.

If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.