Stakes Quotes

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.

The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.

I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.

For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

Strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a company. Let us not forget that BP has a stake in Rosneft and BP is a British company.

Challenging American leadership is not at stake.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.