Quotes About Fear

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.

To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.

When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.

What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible.

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

The idea of creating film scores was terrifying for many years, into my 30s. It struck me as a career of doing 30-page term papers the night before they're due.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

I remember walking home one day from school, and this car pulled up behind me really slow, and it gave me a really weird feeling, and all of a sudden it skimmed me, and the man was half naked and tried to pull me into his car and saying crazy things to me. And it was terrifying.

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

Ebola's a terrifying disease.

Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to. So despite 'Poltergeist' being a horror movie, I convinced my parents to let me see it. It was terrifying. I guess this says a lot about me as a six-year-old, because I loved it.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

If you ever find yourself on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you look around in every direction and don't see anything. That's a terrifying experience.