Quotes About Fear

Almost anyone can give me the willies. Man or woman, Asian, black or white, young or old.

I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.

I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.

I struggle because I really don't want to be married again - can you blame me? - but I don't want to be alone.

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

What we've been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They're afraid of happiness because they think we'll stagnate or we'll be blind: that if I'm happy now, I won't keep fighting as hard. If I'm happy now, I won't push as hard to make a better world. That's what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you.

I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.

Acting is bloody scary.

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

I'm not a security-type person: I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that.

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.

I'm not sure I really want to step into the booth.

Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna.

I want to keep making history, keep entertaining, and keep making guys shake in their boots.

I hope people don't get bored of me. That fear is always there.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.