Morena Baccarin Quotes

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Leap, and the net will appear.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

You don't want to leave 'what if's in life.

Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'

I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.

To me, it's important, always in life, to never wonder what would've happened if I only tried something.

I was a little careful when I first started off. A lot of times, for example, I thought, 'Oh, I can't pull that song off.' I should have just done it.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.