Quotes About Fear

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.

I've chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were challenging and a little bit scary.

I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

All the superhero stuff, somewhere deep down, I think it nudges us into remembering that, really, we're all fabulous if you let go of fear.

If you've learned anything from the modern superhero myth, if you see a bat around and it bites you, you have a 75 percent chance of ending up a superhero. Otherwise, you'll probably get really sick. But it'd be cool to be a superhero. You don't need to be too afraid.

Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

We all live in some kind of home, so the idea that our home could be invested with a supernatural entity is kind of frightening, I think.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.

I feel like if you boil supernatural ghost films down to their core essence, they're really about death.

The more frightening and sort of dark and oppressive a movie is, the more free you are to explore the supernatural and explore faith. The two just somehow go hand-in-hand really nicely.

When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread.

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Black cats cross my path all the time. I'll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.