James Comey Quotes

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.

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

I like the edge of danger.

Living is risking.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

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.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.

I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

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

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

There's action only if there is danger.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

Life is a risk.