Quotes About Fear

It wasn't stubbornness, nor even loyalty, that had made Willie insist on staying at the Ridge. It was love of John Grey, and fear of his loss. And it was the same love that made the boy weep in the night, desperate with worry for his father.

He was not afraid to die with her, by fire or any other way—only to live without her.

Coming back, he saw the dark spots on the back of Jamie's shirt, blotches where fresh blood had seeped through the bandages. The sight filled him with fury, as well as fear. He'd seen such things; the wean had been flogged. Badly, and recently. Who? How?

and he shuddered in spite of the heat and crossed himself.

No, how should I fear the touch of those vanished hands laid on me in love knowing? How could I be afraid of those that molded my flesh, leaving their remnants to live long past the grave?

She had seen Brianna's face for a moment in the light; white as paper and hard as bone, with the eyes black holes. Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil. Lizzie was a town lass, born long after Culloden. She had never seen the wild clansmen of the glens, or a Highlander in the grip of blood fury—but she'd heard the auld stories, and now she knew them true. A person who looked like that might do anything at all. She

I'd lived long enough to realize that fear wasn't usually fatal—at least not by itself.

Not all who are born to it have the courage to take hold of the power that is their right.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I think every athlete is afraid for their career to be over.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

I got attacked when I was six years old by a Mastiff.

When I have anxiety attacks, I always think I'm having a heart attack.

When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.

I don't even attempt to sing.

There was an attempt on my life.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

There've been times where, like when I auditioned for 'Akeelah,' I think in the first audition I was a little bit afraid because it was, you know, I had seen girls in there that I had seen on TV before, and I was like, 'Man, I might as well just walk out of here now because I'm just a newcomer,' and this and that.

Sometimes in an audition, I'll genuinely do something I know they're not going to like.

You're always nervous about an audition.

I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it.

I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

I've always been very shy at auditioning; I'm not so great at it.