Quotes About Fear

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Sometimes when a scene is written or directed to be shouted or played incredibly angrily, I always think it's way more terrifying when someone is fuming and talks in a very calm way. I always want people to shout at me if they're angry - it freaks me out that whole thing of, 'I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.'

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.