I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.
Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
I've learned a lot from my mistakes, stumbles, and losses in football.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Failure is knowledge, and knowledge is success.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Failure is part of success, and nobody should ever view failure as a bad thing as long as you learn from it.
The only way to fail for me is just not to try.
You win some, you lose some and then you get on with it.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
