Top 212 Frightened Quotes

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don’t want to talk about it, they don’t want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don’t understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, ‘Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.’ But, you know, most people don’t speak out because they are frightened.

I’m too frightened to go on ‘Celebrity Mastermind.’ You really are shown up. Just you and a chair – there’s no way out.

I don’t get in a position to be frightened. I don’t do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don’t be frightened.

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

If you get asked to play a part that makes you feel frightened, then you have to do it. ‘Medea’ is the opportunity of a lifetime.

I probably wouldn’t make a good accountant. I don’t even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he’s a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.

After ‘Breaking Bad,’ people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

But I’m more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg’s my main influence.

When I was a kid, dealing with trying to discover myself, I didn’t have anybody to talk to. I didn’t have any Internet and didn’t have any friends. You felt very alone and very frightened.

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it’s really true.

I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at night, and so it was a dream that happened a lot, and that’s what frightened me.

We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

I’m always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.

I’ve always been frightened of turning thirty.

Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I’m frightened a lot. I feel like it’s caused me a lot of obstacles.

I don’t believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn’t mean you don’t feel afraid or frightened. I think it’s normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.

A lot of people are frightened by old age – by being around people who are, basically, on their way out – but I’m fascinated by it. It’s an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

I have an internal protectiveness where it’s like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I’m like, It could happen and I’m okay, I’m prepared.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We’re going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word ‘queer’ is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.

I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.

None of us know what comes after death. All of us, to some extent, are probably mystified or maybe a little bit frightened of it.

When you’re made to be frightened within a safe context, like watching a horror film, you have that tension/release which triggers all those happy chemicals that feel good.

I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active – in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don’t have fear in that regard.

We have to look at levels of migration. We are in a world that is quite chaotic. Some people are really frightened about it. Some people are quite despairing. They don’t believe our country is capable of providing a good quality of life. That feeds into why people voted Ukip and induces a culture of despair.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

My mantra is: Realize you’re going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn’t mean I’m not frightened of it.

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

The energy that you expend making yourself look frightened and feeling frightened is just as hard as crying and shouting and all the other extremities of emotion.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.

I think it’s tough making a horror movie. I was in ‘Halloween’ and that’s a horror movie, but my character only spends about 13 seconds being frightened.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I’m more resigned to the inevitability.

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they’re more frightened of us than we are of them.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this ‘thing called depression’, and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I’m still frightened of him. I think he’s going to hit me.

As a kid, there was a painting of ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit’ that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too – because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.

Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

I knew I could make people laugh but I was frightened of doing it. I thought, ‘What if I’m crap, what if I’m no good at it?’, but I knew I should have a go and shouldn’t sit inside watching other people do it on television.

If you’re constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.

It’s like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it, nine times out of then I’ll say yes imminently because then I can worry after I’ve said yes!

When people chat to me about my childhood and getting into horses, they’re like, ‘Was it like the birds sang and the sun came out? Was it an amazing experience?’ I’m like, ‘No, it was rubbish. I was frightened. I was pretty unbalanced, and most ponies took advantage of me.’