Quotes About Fear

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

My first film by itself was very daunting and though I had offers, I didn't take them because I wasn't too sure.

I didn't struggle initially. But after my hit Aashiqui, I didn't get any film offers for 8 months. That made me insecure.

I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away.

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

I'm not scared of the NBA. I'm not scared of the NBA officials.

Oftentimes the easy decision and comfortable decision is not the right one.

As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it. You say to yourself 'I don't have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I'm a fraud.' And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence.

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have to play him even though I know what this is going to involve.'

The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.

There's Sia and 5 Seconds of Summer but that's sort of it, nobody from Australia really has success in America, and to have a song go so well on radio, you start to have success and you think, 'Oh God, I don't want to lose that!'

I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, 'Oh my God, what am I doing?' I had no idea.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'

The second Trump won, I felt super-powerless and I thought, 'Oh my God, no one's looking out for us.'

When 9/11 happened, it affected everything. It affected me. I'm an American, and I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is evil. This is terrible.'

I moved to L.A. at 17, and for the fist time, I had to realize that if I run out of money, I'm moving back to Ohio - and I didn't want to do that at all.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.