Quotes About Fear

I am always scared when I start something new. That hasn't changed.

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

One of the reasons I love horror so much is - when it's done well - you can keep peeling away the layers and see something new every time.

I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.

I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.

I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.

I've been lucky enough to do a few editorials in the U.K., but I've never even been on a casting for mainstream commercial work. When I try to understand it, I think people are scared to try something new.

I do feel like I get anxiety, and anxious to do something new.

Going through life is always scary doing something new, at the same time it is very exciting.

It's difficult, very difficult to create something new every time in this space of horror and scare people every time.

Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.

Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.

I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!

I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.

My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

You cannot deliver to your maximum if you're thinking 'if I do an error, it might close a door to somewhere' or whatever.

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

I actually read somewhere that they measured how many calories you burn from watching movies, and horror movies are way, way up the list.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

My mom is a very religious woman. So when I began recording music, I was afraid she wouldn't accept it. But when I played her a song, she loved it.

I feel scared going before the public and it has been like this forever. After one song is over, I feel better.

It's nice to play new songs, but it's nerve-wracking.