Top 105 Scares Quotes

I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I’d like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.

I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director’s talent scares me. I admit that they’re more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don’t state them strongly.

If your body is excited to do something, that’s what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

The thing that scares me about the way the music industry has changed so much is that I’m afraid that the record, the album, will disappear, and it’ll go back to the way it was in the ’50s where everything is single-based.

I’d seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

I’ve always loved radio. Television scares me, because I’m older.

Personally, what scares me most is the thoughtlessness the Internet can perpetuate.

I love to watch ‘Hoarders.’ My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother’s on her way. I’m an electronics hoarder – I won’t throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick… old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I’m going to end up being buried under electronics.

I’m not scared of snakes, spiders, flying… nothing scares me apart from needles. I just hate them. Which is quite funny because I’ve had four knee operations, and I’ve got tattoos, so I’ve seen a few needles in my time.

Nobody scares me.

Comedy, I’m still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It’s got to be the actor or someone. But the ‘comic genius’ actors are the darkest people on the planet – and that kind of scares me!

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands – introducing chaos and freedom.

Nothing scares me but God.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it’s been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that’s counter to their own interests.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

I’ve always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that’s the way things are.

Whenever there’s a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I’m going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

I would say what scares me is that I’m going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I’m really not lovable, that I’m not worthy of being loved. That there’s something fundamentally wrong with me.

The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.

One of the things I’ve had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

The thing is, horror is a big part of ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there’s a lot more horror in ‘Holmes’ that people possibly think of. There’s a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

Being misunderstood – that’s the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

I think marriage scares a lot of men.

Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting.

If I don’t make heritage visible and the strength of mother tongue important for my grandchildren, it scares me that they might say in 20 years from now, ‘Well, it is rumoured that we used to be Africans long ago.’ And in many urban areas, it’s already happening.

It’s great when people have the confidence to discuss their sexuality if it works for them. I can’t fault someone for not coming out, because I don’t know their journey, what scares them, what’s at stake, or how it will affect their personal life or family.

Book tours are super hard for me as a raging introvert. I love humanity, but actual humans are hard for me. So something like a book tour – where I’m constantly on the road – scares the hell out of me.

I have never joined the Facebook world because, to be truthful, social media scares me to death. It is kind of crazy how huge that world is, so I have never joined Facebook, but I do have Instagram and Twitter.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

Being in a new country, learning a new language – it isn’t something that scares me.

When I first appeared, people couldn’t figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.

You have to write about what scares you.

Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.

I love ‘Paranormal Activity’ and ‘The Exorcist.’ ‘The Shining’ is a great one too, but there’s not a lot that scares me. Maybe it’s because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

It kind of scares me, the notion that we’re going to be injecting ourselves into other countries’ affairs when they’re not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn’t be telling Israel what to do.

The thought of real-life scares me to death.

When I ask ‘What’s the film that scared you the most?’ I’m really asking ‘What scares you the most?’

Sometimes I pick parts because I think, ‘OK, it scares me,’ and that’s an indication it’s going to be a good movie for me to do. Sometimes that leaves me in a terrible… Well, it doesn’t always pan out, you know?

One of the main reasons I come out so strongly for conservative values is not only because of my religious beliefs, but because it scares me to think how much divorce there is in America today, how many babies are aborted, how many broken families there are.

I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I’ll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don’t want to get lost forever. That scares me.

I am concerned that there’s a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the bag searches, the bomb scares and deaths. As they say, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

I’ve never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that’s in the back of my mind a bit.

I love getting cheers. I love giving scares. Anything that really works with the audience makes me happy.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I’m in.

The original ‘RoboCop’ was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually made the movie more violent, because it’s what you don’t see that actually scares you.

I’m at my most fulfilled challenging myself with something that scares me.

I’m so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I’d like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.

It doesn’t matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can’t speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

Audiences have grown to equate being startled with being scared, and will complain that a movie ‘isn’t scary enough’ if it doesn’t have enough jump scares… so that means that a lot of studios will insist on shoving jump scares into a movie, regardless of character or story structure, thinking it ‘makes it scarier.’

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

What scares me? Bears. And sharks. And my girlfriend.

If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it’s work for me. It’s not that it scares me, but it’s work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say ‘Okay, today I’m Italian!’

I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something – the power of tsunamis, etc. But it’s human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.

When you’re used to fighting in a cage, nothing scares you.

Do one thing today that scares you – and you already know what that is! – and go do it. Even if you just make one step toward it, it will help you look at the world differently.

The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I’d want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I’m a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.