Quotes About Fear

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.

You know you've have a good idea when you're lying awake at night going 'someone else is going to take it, I just know it!'

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

In a post-9/11 world, 'Batman' is less about scaring bad people into the shadows than he is about bringing good people out into the light.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

You do have to challenge yourself. I think scared is a good thing.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.

The good thing about being nervous is that you perform better.

For all who are in love but afraid of the world you must show courage because the world has always taken time to accept all good things.

I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

But when at long last he had got his head out over the side of the bed, in mid-air, he became afraid of continuing in this manner, for if he were to fall like that it would take a miracle for him not to sustain a head injury. And consciousness was the last thing he wanted to lose at the present time; he would rather stay in bed.

was trembling

at the bottom of every story, there's always something monstrous. Thrashing about in the mud.

The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

In winter when the snow and ice were fierce, we shook beneath our different roofs alone, and that's what Hell is like, I think. It's cold and shame and shaking. And worst of all, it's loneliness.

I have spent uncounted hours of my life in such haggard waiting, crazy in my conviction that they would never come back at all because something unspeakable had happened to them the way I had learned as a child that unspeakable things happen. And it has taken me years to understand that what I feared most of all was perhaps less the disaster that might have befallen them than the disaster of being locked up in the dark of my own fear. The Cowardly Lion.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you.

Yes, take your times seriously. Yes, know that you are judged by the terrible sins of your times. Yes, you do well to faint with fear and foreboding at what is coming on the world. And yet rejoice. Rejoice. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety. Pray.