Quotes About Fear

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

I've always been an anxious performer. I've never liked performing.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

Performing on stage is such a buzz. I've done stupid things such as jump off a building, but I'd never experienced adrenalin like I did on stage.

When I've known something is right, the actual doing of it is not scary. It's like being onstage or performing. After it and before it, there might be a lot of fear, but the act of it is never scary for me.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

We demonize our enemies at our own peril.

It's pretty tough to intimidate me. And that's probably at my own peril sometimes.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

I live in a perpetual state of fear.

I think she's the foundation of everything I've done. I think, definitely, my mother's fear of failure helps make me more resilient and helps make me persevere.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden.