risk-taking quotes

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.