Quotes About Fear

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

Since I was a kid, I have always froze when I saw an action star perform a stunt defying the parameters of safety and fear.

There's no such thing as a great stunt if there's no danger involved.

In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.

My husband's a stunt man, and he dragged me to stunt driving school with him because I hate driving and he felt that it would help to make me feel more comfortable. And it did in certain ways, and in certain ways I'm still not.

As a performer, the more I scare the stunt coordinator, the better.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.

I would love to do my own stunts, but stunts are not something I have a lot of experience with.

I'm still nervous every time I act. I'm not when I'm doing stunts.

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

Fear makes you do stupid things.

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.