Elisabeth Shue Quotes

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It's part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

I don't look further than next year because in our world, anything can happen.

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

Every job in Hollywood is a risk. You don't know, when you sign a contract, if something is going to pop, you don't know whether this or that network is going to support your show. You just show up and do the best work you can do, gravitate towards the best material, you know, and try to make the right choices. And the rest of it is a roll of the dice.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.

You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

You say this victory is dangerous. I say that today no one can yet tell if it's dangerous, that today I don't see the risks you mention. If, however, those risks should become reality...I'll act in accordance with the new reality.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.