Christian Bale Quotes

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.

Safety's just danger, out of place.

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

Socially relevant risk is not uncertainty of outcome, or violence of event, or toxicity of substance, or anything of the sort. Rather, it is perceived inability to cope satisfactorily with the world around us.

You can't change what people think or say.

Risk is what you make of it.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

There's always going to be someone who hates you. There's always going to be people who love you. It's a risk in either direction.

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

People are going to talk about you. But maybe you're having more fun than them anyway.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

Life entails risk, and you have to draw some lines.

The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

Some see risk as a reason not to try. Some see it as an obstacle to overcome. The risk is the same; to try or not depends on your perspective.

I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.

Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.