Quotes About Fear

A gap in tone is opening up between podcasts and broadcast radio. The people who produce the former know their listeners have given them permission to go deep into their subject. The people who do the latter live in fear they've already gone too far.

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered.

Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.

When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified.

No problem is too big to run away from.

We think till the last minute that nothing can happen to us. But cancer will grab you by surprise, and then it's too late.

When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right: you can never have too much.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

In film, there's this kind of constant fear that you're going to be doing too much. That may be an unfounded fear because I love sizable performances on film, especially when they're by performers who push the boundaries of what people deem the right kind of size.

I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.