Quotes About Fear

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

Going into my first Ryder Cup, my big fear was that I would contribute nothing to the team and that we'd lose.

We have controlled the law and order to ensure that the people of Punjab can live and breathe in peace, without fear.

Fear controls you.

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.

I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.'

We can't grow as a party, if we're afraid of having difficult conversations.

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.

I feel a bit scared at times as I feel if I am not convinced about the scene, the audiences won't be either, so I have to give my best.

I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

I'm scared if the cops pull me over.

Growing up, you always heard of cops beating people up behind buildings and letting them go. Now they just shoot them.

The spookiest thing for me is when I think I see something, and then nothing is there. I always imagine I see something, or I'll catch movement out of the corner of my eye, but nothing is really there.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.