Quotes About Fear

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

I remember going through checkpoints as a kid. It felt normal but, looking back, of course it created tension. People standing with guns, sometimes your car getting searched and being asked where you are going. It changes the atmosphere.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.

I associate a family as the safest place in the world. So when it comes to things that scare me, introducing instability and tension into where you're supposed to be the safest really strikes a chord with me.

When I'm driving, you have a different feeling when the police get behind you and you're not even breaking the law. The tension is so high.

I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.

I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

You know, people do call it homophobia, and even that term alone is interesting to me. Because I don't even know how they call it homophobia, because that's a fear of the same. It's more heterophobia. It's a fear of something different from yourself.

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

I haven't really done a whole lot of daring stuff. Like when I go snowboarding, I don't go in the terrain park.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up and start taking life a bit more seriously, which had a huge impact on me. I suffered terrible anxiety, and sometimes, in the middle of a game, my legs would start shaking uncontrollably. It was pretty scary.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

I think these are terrible times to be anything in.

One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.