Quotes About Fear

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

I remember when I was younger, we used to read the Goosebumps books that were absolutely terrifying.

The biggest thing is to overcommunicate your vision. It's so important to have real clarity as to what is inside your head, and sometimes that's really terrifying for people.

The thing that strikes a chord with me... as a mother... is to think of my 17-year-old son fighting would be just terrifying.

I have two girls and one is now nearly a teenager - it is terrifying.

We're 10 or something, and we're watching 'Evil Dead,' which you don't really see the humor in when you're 10 years old. It was just terrifying. And same with 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' which is such a brilliant movie and such a brilliant concept.

With 'Black Sea,' I long had an idea that I wanted to do a film about people stuck on the bottom of the ocean. I thought that was a terrifying scenario.

When 'The Ring' came out, it destroyed me for an entire week. I just couldn't deal with how terrifying that film was.

My becoming an actor was a massive shift for me, and a terrifying one.

The whole Brexit saga is, in my view, one big, terrifying leap in the dark.

I find doppelgangers terrifying... can you imagine two of me?! Now that's scary!

I sail to Hawaii and back a lot, and it sometimes involves very terrifying experiences. And you have to keep yourself from becoming panicky.

My technicolour dreamcoat is the only thing I've stolen. It would be a terrible shame if it went up in smoke after the trouble I went to get it. I was wearing it during the most terrifying moment of my life - the opening night of 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' was fear beyond compare.

There is really no such thing as terrifying people. It's the situation and the scene that count. Not the actor.

Even at a McFly show, if I don't have a guitar for a few minutes... and suddenly being on my own, without my band mates and on the dance floor with no instrument and not singing, it will be absolutely terrifying.

The only place I do avoid is Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve. I saw in the New Year there once - it was the most terrifying experience of my life.

Hit shows are very difficult to achieve. You need to have everything just right - that's what's so terrifying.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.