Rik Mayall Quotes

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all.

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

Take a walk on the wild side.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

Only the person who risks is truly free

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.