Quotes About Fear

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.

When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

It is scary for me to do a film by directly showing up on the sets without any preparation.

Honestly, I have not done any preparation for 'Khatron ka Khiladi.'

I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

Half of learning a new element is just getting over the fear of doing it. Once you mentally prepare yourself enough to do the jump, that is really half the battle.

Once you start, if you're still afraid, don't do it. Either it's too hard, or you're not prepared. I've never done something when I was scared.

I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to win. I just don't want to lose.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

Being part of 'Game of Thrones,' you're always expecting your character to die. You're not mentally preparing yourself for a very long haul.

I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger.

I think occasionally it's the presence - or increased presence - of federal law enforcement that can cause that fear.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.