Quotes About Fear

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

I went into 'Bigg Boss' house for two hours to promote my film, and I got scared.

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

I think I'm prone to panic.

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

I felt very at home in California, but the place is prone to earthquakes, and the one in 1994 scared the life out of me. For months afterwards, I felt that every time I sat down, I should have put on a seatbelt.

I used to get very nervous and couldn't even pronounce my name in front of my camera.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function properly if you live in an irrational fear.

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Horror is my favorite genre, but there have been a few horror movies that have properly scared me and that I don't jump back in to watch over and over.

I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn't really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

It's an amazingly daunting prospect to play any part you've seen someone else play brilliantly.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.