Quotes About Fear

I grew up with the idea that someone might hate you if they knew what religion you were; being afraid to open my mouth because my accent might make people think something about me. Or even if they didn't, would they understand me?

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.

No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do.

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

I'm not really a horror movie fan.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.

I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in. If I can care and root for the main character, then I'm in.

I love scary movies.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

Multimedia scares me off.

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.