Quotes About Fear

The stories I grew up with, whether it came to queer representation or representation of anyone that was different, it was always a story of, like, very sad, usually ended up with somebody dying, and it made the idea of being queer or different really scary, actually.

I think that was my biggest fear - censoring myself and putting myself into a cookie cutter to be representative. But I think what I realised is we don't need that.

My old man works in the postal service, my mum in a hospital and my brother in a factory. They're my family and when I play rugby I'm representing them. But coming out was different. More than anyone, I feared for my father. I used to be a postman myself and so I know that working environment.

I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn't be afraid to be bold.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

I've had success, but I'm still haunted by the fear of being hungry. Once you've lived it it never leaves you.

What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.

May 20, 2017, was one of the scariest days of my life. It was the day I realized I was being hunted by Erdogan.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.

I am constantly scared that I should not do or say anything that will hurt my fans.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

When I'm scared of hurting myself, I start to overthink things and won't go for it.

Usually, what happens with women that aren't comfortable with fighting is they're afraid of getting hurt, or hurting someone. All it usually takes to get them going is to make them feel safe, and make them feel like they look cool while doing it. And once they get a little more comfortable, they're gung ho!

Hype is scary.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.