Quotes About Fear

I've crossed the Mexican border and gone to Tijuana a few times over the years, but I've never felt comfortable there.

In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.

People always want us to go back to the Island of the Dolls in Mexico or to Chernobyl - which I'm not going to go back to - or to this haunted forest in Romania.

Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.

The words are frightening - how you're going to build a wall, how you're going to have Mexico pay for it. What does this mean?

I've swum with dolphins in Mozambique and with bull sharks off Mexico. They didn't tell me how dangerous the sharks were until after I got out.

'Halloween' is classic Michael Myers.

I go to all the haunted houses that I can get my hands on, and I grew up in Michigan, where there are a lot of back-woodsy haunted attractions.

Mickey and the Bear' was the scariest choice I've made in my career because I feel pretty safe in the world of comedy and everything else, but I don't feel safe in deep, dark, scary roles that I took on like 'Mickey and the Bear.'

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

I just have to live my life knowing that there could be a good chance that I might die in middle age.

While in the Middle East, I saw how quickly religious sectarianism and bigotry can lead to the disintegration of a country - how leaders manipulate people to fear others who are different, who look different, or who have different beliefs.

I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.

Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.

I think a lot of gay kids in the midwest or in places not in New York have to overachieve in order to sort of get through the fear of what they're going through.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

When I think about doing something, I think: Will I survive a million out of a million times?

But I could never in a million years get up on a stage, ever. Even thinking about it makes me feel like fainting.

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.