Quotes About Vulnerability

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn.

I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

I remember walking home one day from school, and this car pulled up behind me really slow, and it gave me a really weird feeling, and all of a sudden it skimmed me, and the man was half naked and tried to pull me into his car and saying crazy things to me. And it was terrifying.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

Even at a McFly show, if I don't have a guitar for a few minutes... and suddenly being on my own, without my band mates and on the dance floor with no instrument and not singing, it will be absolutely terrifying.

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.

No one wants to be picked at. At the end of the day, we're all human beings with feelings and emotions. Nobody wants to be critiqued and picked apart, but it's the nature of the business. It comes with the territory. For me, if they're not talking about you, that's where you can run into some trouble.

I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into somewhere that I didn't know existed before, and it frightened me.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

I think that whether you're married or not, in any relationship, there's always the terror that you're going to screw something up.

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

It is a cause of grave concern that the cyber world is being exploited by terror groups such as DAESH or ISIS to radicalise the gullible youth of our country.

The thing about terror and why it's so interesting is that terror is there to keep us safe. But then the issue comes in: Well, how do you ever grow if you can't get past this fear? That's called suppression.

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.