Quotes About Fear

I remember my mom being very scared the first few auditions. My parents are very supportive, but they're also very realistic, which is great.

When you're older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

I'm scared of the gym - I see all these machines, and I'm like, 'What is that? What am I supposed to do?'

I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.

I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

In the beginning of my career, I loved the fear because if I was afraid, then I was going to get the rush. Your endorphins get released when you're afraid. So whenever I would surf, I would be looking for the rush.

It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

For some reason surfing... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

I'm not an adrenaline junkie; I won't jump out of aeroplanes and I'm afraid of horses. I just love surfing.

I've probably had the worst wipeouts in surfing, and I've enjoyed every one of them.

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.