Quotes About Fear

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

I was a big kid who never played any organized sports. You played a lot of sports in the streets and I excelled at that, but I was never confident enough to go out for Little League. I was afraid I might get cut, or I might not be able to hit the ball.

I seem to have a missing gene when it comes to organized sports. Televised events bore me and I literally fear the crowds at live matches.

If you are not frightened, you are not original.

There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death.

I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

I grew up within New Orleans; my greatest concern is rising water. But I think life is a process of moving items from the 'scared of' to the 'not scared of' list.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

The Coronavirus crisis is causing fear, anxiety and financial hardship for families across our community, our state and our nation.

We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it's scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.

I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

Our world has us always here. We will be here from now 'til the end of time... maybe not! And that's the scary part!

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.