Quotes About Fear

All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun.

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.

I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.

I want you to feel like you're going to die.

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular.

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine

I have gotten death threats - that was scary. But it just made me want to use my voice more.

People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.

I was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested.

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.