Nick Davies Quotes

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

I like feeling out of my depth.

I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

Life is an affirmation, not a defamation. Life means living. Life means taking that one tiny or giant leap beyond what you know you can do, or simply beyond what you know. It is in these moments that we live.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.