Tony Scott Quotes

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me!

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

And as a woman, you need to take risks. Don't stay too long in your own swim lane.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

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

Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing.

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.

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

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.