I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.
Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.
I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.
One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.
I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.
[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.
Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It's just you out there with no rope. You can't call time out; you're on a roller coaster.
The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.
I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in.
A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
