Quotes About Fear

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

All I do know is that in six hours I could be suffering from acute existence failure.

We've managed to do without intelligent machines until now, Skade. Not because we fear them but because we know that any intelligent entity must choose its own destiny. Yet that servitor doesn't have any free will, does it? Just intelligence. The one without the other is a travesty. We've gone to war over less.]

I don't remember that I ever really went all out to come up with a costume or a persona that could compete with everyone around me. I didn't know what to do. I found Halloween scary for just that fact - it meant that I had pressure to get up and be scary, makeup and all that. That was pretty horrifying for me.

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

I'm a bit of a scaredy cat. Personally, I don't like to be kept up at night.

Personally, I'm a real wimp with scary movies. I get so scared.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

When I go in the Octagon, it's no big deal. Just gonna go fight. Majority of the people? 'Dude, I'm scared to even walk through there.' Everything's a matter of perspective.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit.

I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.

But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.