Cathy Engelbert Quotes

The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

Don't be afraid to look silly.

I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.

Every job I took, I was deeply uncomfortable in terms of feeling unqualified. Every step, every risk I took, built confidence.

I've chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were challenging and a little bit scary.

There's a lot of times that you got to put yourself out there to fail, you can't be afraid to fail.

Mentors and sponsors, particularly in the early stages of my career, were invaluable to me because they encouraged me to raise my hand and take opportunities to build my capabilities.

I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.

I have an awesome team. We all talk about what projects are the best for me to work on for my career and which ones to pass on.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

I don't want my learning curve to be stunted by just all of a sudden doing work all the time and not being careful about the work that I'm doing.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.