Jim Crace Quotes

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.

Danger is cool.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

I like the edge of danger.

You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.

We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.

There's action only if there is danger.

I think it's good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don't have any need for guts.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.