Quotes About Fear

I was always fearful I would become That Guy. The guy who had regret. 'Yeah, we won a couple of championships, but I never saw my kids grow up. Yeah, we beat Georgia a couple of times, but I ruined my marriage.'

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

For any girl who has a dream, they just need to go for it. I think sometimes our fears hold us back, and it's about having no fears and living with no regrets. Whether you fail or you succeed, just make sure you have no regrets.

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably 'behind' my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets.

For people who are afraid to talk about cancer, for people who are afraid to communicate with their loved ones about it, and for the people who want to pretend cancer doesn't exist, either delaying diagnosis or not getting regular checkups, the consequences can be fatal. Doing nothing about cancer will kill you.

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

You take the risk of being rejected.

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.

I hate being rejected.

When we go through being rejected and abandoned like I did as a kid, you have a lot of fear and anxiety issues that you didn't even know that's what it was defined as. You live your life a lot of times living with the ghost of fear.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Everyone fears rejection.

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?