Roy Scheider Quotes

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.

It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.

I live to feel myself in danger.

I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.

Living is risking.

One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Truly living required risk.

Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

I've always been in danger, but I don't mind.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.