Quotes About Fear

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family.

I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

It's really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

I am a shy man. I can't call a stranger and talk.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers.

On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all.

It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.

There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movie could have worked just as well if we didn't see it, in my opinion.

People actually have the nerve to ask me if I want to go to a haunted house. Why would I want to go to a place where I have to pay my money for creepy strangers to be able to harass me without legal repercussions?

People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a large group of strangers laugh is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can ease the fear.

We have always been told not to open the door to strangers, especially because of the terrible things that could happen these days. I never have, unless they are expected and are friends or family.

Kids naturally tend to be a bit camera shy, especially in front of strangers.