There’s nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they’re dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you’ll care about the scare.
I don’t like modernity. I don’t have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can’t drive a car.
Like, 100 percent, I hate spiders. I thought I really liked them, and I learned that was just false. I really can’t be around spiders. It scares me so much.
I guess I’m attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it’s why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
I’m not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I’m not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
Anytime you mention Jesus or faith, people are turned off. I think it scares a lot of people.
I know if I don’t look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years’ time mumbling my words and slurring. It won’t be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don’t worry about being killed in the ring; it’s losing my mind that I fear.
When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I’m no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.
Art scares me. I don’t feel cool enough to be an artist.
For me when I watch ‘The Shining,’ it’s like watching a home movie. I understand how it scares people. I think it’s an entertaining movie, don’t get me wrong. But I look back on it with so many memories.
Nothing really scares me anymore.
A line from one of my 1997 columns – ‘Do one thing every day that scares you’ – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don’t believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
L.A. kind of scares me.
I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.
There’s nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
The word ‘love’ scares me.
Oh, I’m just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I’m not saying I never will. But it’s like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?
It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody’s face when you’re finished and packing, it’s the best smile in the world; and there’s nobody hurt, and the well’s under control.
There’s nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you’ll know what frightens me.
Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
You just find the best actors that you can. There’s an inherent drama within the framework of scares and killings and all that. In ‘Scream,’ there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.
Multimedia scares me off.
Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don’t spend time on things I can’t control. Wrinkles don’t scare me; they’re a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.
I’m one of those women who’s not to be messed with. I’m very opinionated and boisterous at times. I’m also kind and humble. I know when to fold and when to hold, and that’s important. If my edge scares you, then you have a choice to remove yourself.
I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
‘The Shining’ scares me so much.
If you don’t do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work.
I’m not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.
What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
I just wanted to be a part of something that’s a horror movie that scares you.
I have two friends, who have died from this boxing game, and it scares me, but I feel I was made for this.
I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic.
The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won’t be at this level. But while I’m here and while I’m having success early, I’m trying to do everything to stay on this level.
I hate jump scares. I really hate them. I think there’s nothing special about being able to startle someone – that’s an involuntary reflex, and it makes people laugh.
What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes… is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who’ve never seen one or seen the effects of one.
Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?
I’m not really afraid of the dark, except if I’m walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance.
My violent music helps most kids avoid that street life because it scares them. My fans aren’t blind to the consequences.
The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn’t even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn’t even go one semester.
So I’ve always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I’ve done, there’s some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me… besides Republicans.
Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it’s good for the body and for the mind.
I haven’t seen ‘The Exorcist,’ but I’ve seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don’t actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don’t know what it is, but even though it’s quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I’ve ever seen in my life.
I reached a point where nothing scares me in this industry, mainly because I grew up in it. My earliest memory is 4 years old, getting in a wrestling ring.
I like challenging parts, something I haven’t done yet, something that scares me. There’s just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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