Quotes About Fear

I'm afraid if I start to enjoy life, the rug will be yanked out from beneath me.

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

The fear that ultimately leads to hate is something we need to change, and I want to do whatever I can to make the world a better place.

The whole Big Brother vision of the world is looming large.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm a big fan of writing less than perfect things.

For me, I feel like horror space has always been a space of the other, even when it's not people of color or black people. That has always drawn me to it, and I've been a big fan.

Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot.

I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

I'm the biggest pansy you've ever seen.

I am the biggest technophobe of all time.

I don't want to let my family down; I don't want to let myself down. That's probably the biggest thing I fear.

Two kids riding their bikes to an empty lot? It never ends well.

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.

When your touch goes, it starts biting into your confidence as well.

I was bitten by a viper; there were two marks on my hand.

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.