Alaina Huffman Quotes

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

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 biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

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

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

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

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail.

I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.

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.

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

Don't be afraid to step through some of that uncertainty that you might feel when you're passionate about doing something.

You do have to challenge yourself. I think scared is a good thing.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

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.

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

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.