Quotes About Fear

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

I'm fine with being beat-up and pushed around, but I'm really scared of heights and scared of ledges.

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.

I think what pushes me every day is that I'm so afraid to fail. I think it comes from what I went through in school growing up and not being great in the classroom and having to work harder than everybody else.

The thing I'm afraid of the most with the 800m is injuries. That's why I don't normally like to run in a group: I prefer to be in front, just in case someone pushes me with their spikes. I don't like stuff like that.

Whenever the creation of a national, computerized database of gun owners is proposed, the advocates pushing it insist that people have nothing to fear because politicians will not abuse the enormous power inherent in such a database.

I had actually hurt my neck, and because I went a while without getting it taken care of - it was pushing up against the back of my heart - and because I have heart issues, they thought it was this whole big deal. So I spent a good three days in the hospital, two nights in the ICU.

I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I'm really pushing myself to do these new projects. It's scary as hell, but it's fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.

You do a play, or you go on set for the first day of filming: if you don't have nerves, and you don't have any kind of adrenalin pushing you forward, then something is wrong.

That was one thing about my life and everything I've done really, it's like I've been on a diving board scared out of my life and someone just keeps pushing me!

Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.

I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that.

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

I want the public to know how it feels, the fear of being scrutinized, of being outed. The fear of what happens when you come out and the media puts you under a microscope. It's crippling. You get lost.

People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.

The very idea of a Party of God, Hizbollah, puts the fear of God into British hearts.

I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything.

To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.

I was scared to be myself because I love to be flamboyant.