Quotes About Fear

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

Because zombies can't go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.

Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that, " Garrett said gruffly. "You'll have me convinced I'm going to die.""You're not?