Robert Redford on success
I was going to pick just one quote, but there are so many good ones from Robert Redford that relate to what we do in radio as well:
“Not taking a risk is a risk. That’s how I see it. If you’re going to take a risk, you have to be prepared if it doesn’t work. You have to have perseverance and a certain gumption and maybe be a little nuts.”
“What really matters is the work. And what matters to me is doing the work. I’m not looking at the back end: ‘What am I going to get out of this? What’s going to be the reward?’ I’m just looking at the work, the pleasure of being able to do the work.”
“I think it’s important to fail. Failure’s not fun. I’m not that perverse. I grew up in a world that said failure is the end of the road. It’s not. It’s a step along the road.”
“Change is inevitable. You either resist it—we know who those people are—or you go with it.”
“The way you really find out about the performer’s seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That, I don’t have a lot of respect for.”
“I wasn’t really seeing the country I lived in being represented onscreen. I wanted to see stories where things weren’t so red, white and blue, or so black and white. I was interested in the grey zone.”
“Be careful of success. It has a dark side.”
“That is usually what brings people to the work: They have a story they want to tell. A lot of people are taken aback with that question: What’s your story?”
“If you persevere, if you really believe in something strongly enough, you just keep at it until it happens.”
RIP Robert Redford <3
