Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

There comes a time in every life when the past recedes and the future opens. It's that moment when you turn to face the unknown. Some will turn back to what they already know. Some will walk straight ahead into uncertainty. I can't tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun.

For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

I'll give up smoking when I die, and I'll settle down when I die. Until then, I'm gonna have a good time.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.

There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.

I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn’t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his way down, hopefully. That's the kind of people I really enjoy working with. Playing safe isn't much fun. I like danger. It's controlled danger, always, and that's why I hope I don't lure too many good actors down into the pits with me, because I hope they maintain their own unique talents.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.

I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

All growth is a leap in the dark.

You have to believe that you can act and that you're the right person for the job but I think it's good to not always know how you're going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.