Casey Affleck Quotes

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.

I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

As a player you can't be too worried if you take a risk and whether it's not going to come off.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

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.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.