John Landgraf Quotes

I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

An actor always goes to the safe side.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.

I think one of the basest of all things is fear. Fear erodes the individual. Fear erodes the nation, the spine of the nation.

Fear will make you stingy.

Before really high-pressured gigs I tend to freeze and crawl into bed. Under the covers you just feel safe for a little while.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.

I don't have anything against SyCo or 'X Factor' or any of that. I'm just a guy who got really afraid of not being in control.

When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.

People motivated by fear do not act well.

I am somebody who never came close to a physical altercation, because I was too scared of even getting near one - I'd probably just start crying.

There's a lot of times I'll just play too passive and since I'm not going to play defense as well as most guys can, I can't get away with passive play.

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

In school, I would run away whenever there was trouble, as I would get bullied a lot.

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

Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

I'm not the kind of person to put all my eggs in one basket.