“Honestly, I have never been afraid of failure. I strive to fail. Most people are so afraid of failure they avoid it whenever they can. That limits them. If you try something that’s completely outside your comfort zone, where you have no skill or knowledge or experience, then of course to begin with you’ll fail – you have to learn. I love failing, because it means I’m really learning. I love throwing myself into something completely new and unknown, and giving myself up to it. I never think about the outcome – did I ‘fail’ or ‘succeed’? – I just think about the experience. That’s the secret. Then you lose your fear and expose yourself to new things and people and situations, and that’s how you grow and have passion for life. That’s freedom.”
Thus spoke Lucy Liu (38) in Psychologies Magazine, April 2006. Not just a pretty face.