Quotes About Fear

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.'

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

Taking a risk is always frightening, but I gave myself a set period of time and had enough money to see me through. I operated from the belief that things would be okay, that if I wasn't successful I would find myself a job, but either way, I would be fine.

It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was going on 'Idol,' having that kind of exposure, that I realized there's something different about me. I just crave God being a part of every moment.

When I was competing at Oklahoma in college, I remember always getting a lot of anxiety before wrestling matches. Almost to the point where, 'Oh my gosh, man, this is a lot.'

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

My old man was ruthless. He terrorised us.

It's going to hurt if I fall. I don't want to deal with that, I want to prove that it can be done for a long life, until I'm an old man.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

Old people can make me cry. I worry about getting old, and old people inspire me to live life to the full.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

As a woman getting older people start to feel insecure about the way they look.

My older sister showed me 'Hellraiser' when I was, like, 4, and 'Friday the 13th.' She kind of scarred me, but I like watching scary movies with people because you're together in this scary situation. It makes all that more fun.

You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.

I remember driving home from a movie - it wasn't 'Halloween' but another one, maybe the original 'Omen' - and I dropped my friends off, and it was also broad daylight, and yet I was sure that, like, Damien was in the backseat or something like that.

The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.

The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.

In Germany, too many clubs are too scared of Bayern, both on and off the pitch.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.