Quotes About Fear

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that's just my day, not my week.

Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.

Making work without memory is probably one of my biggest fears. It would be indistinguishable from work that is lazy.

We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.