Quotes About Fear

None of my friends act any differently towards me, which is great. I was scared about that, so scared about that.

I think one of the difficult things for me was that I was putting on a brave face for my loved ones; they were putting on a brave face for me. But what got lost in that was the ability to talk about our fear.

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

Why wouldn't you be afraid of a Komodo dragon? It's a dragon. It's a dinosaur.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

I don't have religion or culture. I don't have anything I can believe in when I'm really scared. When I play the songs, I feel the fear disappear.

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Americans have discovered fear.

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

It took four days from discovering I had cancer to finding out how serious the problem was.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

Utilizing fear to rip people off during a crisis is abhorrent, dishonest and downright disgusting behavior.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts.

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

A woman should not have to fear retribution from her employer, and the District of Columbia should be able to pass laws to protect against that retribution.