Les Dawson 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.

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman.

I often run teaching down in my standup, but I had some great years, and it's a great job. It represented a place where I knew what I wanted to do but didn't have the courage.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

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

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

Everyone is coming from a place of fear and my feeling is stop being so afraid. If something doesn't work then that's fine at least then you know it doesn't work. Don't worry so much about it not working, you can always fix that.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

Do what you're afraid to do.