Quotes About Fear

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. I have had to pull it out a few times when I have heard noises at night, but I've never had to use it.

When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

I had a recurring dream when I was younger where red foxes would chase me under tables. It was so weird. And I kept having the same dream.

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.

I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.

I saw a complete lack of courage in Washington to tackle some of our biggest challenges.

I must say I'm a bit more daunted about changing a nappy than I am making a tackle... unless it's Ngani Laumape or Ben Lam.

Every time I go in front of the camera, I have this fear of 'Oh my God, how am I going to tackle this? The director is going to say 'action' and I'm going to just keep standing there; I won't know what to do.' That's a constant fear I have as an actor.

I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

I'm not afraid of fear tactics. They don't work on me.

There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'

It's not that I'm afraid to be tagged with the label of right-wing or even centre-right; I just don't believe it properly describes either the choice that we face politically or what I'm trying to say.

I was scared of running off to be a comedian and then having to come back with my tail between my legs.

I want to be a manager, it wouldn't scare me, but I also think you could be sacked in six months and you'd have to take the kids back to school with your tail between your legs.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.

When the opposition team sense that there is fear, they take advantage without mercy.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.