David Soul Quotes

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

I want to challenge myself with each project.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?

We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.