Christine and the Queens Quotes

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

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

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's in the tradition of 'Urinetown,' kind of - but that's a pretty small tradition. It's possible that it can fail.

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.

I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.

The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.

Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.