Fearlessness Quotes

(2007 - On his career) I`ve been able to work on movies that I like very much in the past few years, which I think have turned out how I had hoped that they would. And, I`m human, you know; that makes me feel good. I like it when people like what I do. I don`t like it when people are laughing at me for what I do, you know? I mean, I`d love to say I was completely impervious to anybody`s opinion, but that just ain`t the truth. Of course, it matters. At the same time, there`s also a danger when you start playing it too safe. After all, what am I paid to do? I`m paid to essentially make an ass out of myself, if needed. And occasionally, in doing that, you`re going to fall flat on your face. But, I have learned, through doing that numerous times in my life, that there`s also a ton of enjoyment to what other people see as humiliation. You can actually come to sort of thrive on that, because in a way, it kind of leads to a sort of fearlessness, if you genuinely don`t mind. If the point is that you tried, I think that really is the most important thing. And, like you said, I feel like I`ve been very fortunate in the last couple of years that I`ve gotten to do what I loved, which is actually the making of movies, and on top of that, if I`ve liked how the movies have turned out themselves, then that`s fantastic. But, to start getting too comfortable within that would be eventually to start churning out boring, boring chaff.

Once you`ve been really bad in a movie, there`s a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

There was just this amazing individuality. It`s just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

My instinct was that it was Sidney`s childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.