Quotes About Fear

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.

It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

I can't really worry about nuclear war any more than I can worry about the aliens coming.

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary.

Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself - and I would miss the chance to seize it.

People get obsessive and nuts. It's scary.

I won't name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.

Things are not going to change until Indian women, and their parents, stop being afraid of what society will say. This is the single biggest obstacle. The fear of what people will say and how this will shame their parents means that women are paralysed.

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.