Brendan Fehr Quotes

I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

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.

I always say if you're not failing, you're not trying.

For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

Life is too short not to experiment.

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

You don't achieve anything by playing it safe.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.

I see things differently: you need to take risks in life.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.

What so many actors are chasing after is an opportunity to evolve and dive into roles that present unique challenges and give you an opportunity to dig your teeth into something unknown, and therefore risky and exciting.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.