Quotes About Fear

I never liked going in the ocean.

There's too much we don't know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.

Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I've seen sharks in the ocean, it hasn't made me get out of the ocean; that's for sure.

To this day, I haven't seen 'Jaws.' Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, 'See the movies that you want to, but I'm telling you, do not ever see Jaws.'

I wasn't really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.

I'm scared of heights and I'm scared of the ocean.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

We're segregating ourselves because we're afraid we're going to offend each other.

Actually, the original nickname that I was told - it scared me to death - was Heavy G. I think the last thing you want to be known as is Heavy anything. No offense to Heavy D - rest his soul. Worked for him, wasn't really my bag.

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

Too many of my heroes have been cut down, but do I want security guards? No. I've been offered them in the past. But the more you present yourself as someone afraid of being attacked, the more people see you as someone to attack.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me, but I've always wanted to be a part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

We had labels offering us deals the first year we formed - 1995 - but we were afraid of them going, 'Let's change this and that.' We had labels telling us to get rid of our singer. I look back sometimes and go, 'Imagine if we had done that-what a shame it would have been?'