Quotes About Fear

I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones.

I know how it feels to be helpless and it is the biggest fear one can experience.

We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness.

God helps those who fear Him.

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

Avoiding the physical sciences due to the fear that they will lead to heresy is childish.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It's not what I do.

I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

Freddy Krueger was one of my childhood heroes.

Even the biggest heroes turn into cowards when they get tired.

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.

But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

I must admit that self-tanner is one beauty arena I've been hesitant to explore, let alone fully embrace.

Action can cure fear and hesitation and doubt.

'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all-time favorite books. I love that it just ends with, you know, 'Hey, the devil's in the world, and guess what? Mom kind of likes him!' And that's the end.