Quotes About Fear

I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.

I have never joined the Facebook world because, to be truthful, social media scares me to death. It is kind of crazy how huge that world is, so I have never joined Facebook, but I do have Instagram and Twitter.

Fear is when we're thinking about the past or thinking about the future, two things that do not exist. If we stay in the moment, do our best in the moment, enjoy the moment, there is no fear.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.

For someone like me, who as a kid could not have two people in front of me without wanting to hide, to end up on stage with a lot of people in front of me, feeling good, it has to be a strange and special place.

One time, I had a nightmare for two weeks after an advert.

Creativity hits me like a lightning bolt. For two weeks ideas overflow and spill from me, before a period of nothing. The prospect of it suddenly just leaving me one day scares me. I'm terrified that every song I write might be my last.

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

I'm terrified of mice or any type of rodent.

It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

I was afraid that I'd be typecast as the token firang. That happened initially. Now, I am acting in 'Noises Off' and 'Menagerie,' where all of us are playing British and American characters. That makes me feel better.

I was afraid I'd be typecast forever as a mediocre actress.

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

I have played a cop a lot over the years and sometimes I get a bit scared of being typecast.

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.