Jack Nicholson Quotes

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

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

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

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.

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

We must substitute courage for caution.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

Do what you're afraid to do.

Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"

To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Boldness in itself is genius.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.

Be brave enough to create.

Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.