I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.
The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you’re startled, I guess.
I am afraid of things which scare me. I am afraid of heights and too much love.
Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?
Something like Pinterest would scare the hell out of me. With $5 billion valuation – regardless how sound those numbers are – wouldn’t be one that I would start, given what I would consider the risk of failure.
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it’s bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn’t scare me at all.
Seeing bigger guys doesn’t scare me at all. It just makes me want to compete against those guys. Bigger or smaller guys – it doesn’t matter.
I am very driven by things that scare and frighten me, and things that might be tough for me.
The guys on ‘Game of Thrones’ trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don’t mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like ‘Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?’ With ‘Constantine,’ too, they really trust me to scare the audience.
People have expectations from you – and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That’s how you get laughs in comedy, and that’s how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.
Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.
I can hide, and my husband’s just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.
I love ‘The Orphanage’ because the concept is so cool and the story is told in such an interesting way. It’s a movie that will scare your socks off but make you cry at the end. It’s one of the most tragic movies I’ve ever watched and is truly heartbreaking and scary at the same time.
It’s difficult, very difficult to create something new every time in this space of horror and scare people every time.
I used to be in a street fight at least twice a week, so locking me in a cage with somebody, with a set of rules and a referee to jump in if something get ugly, and a time limit, like, it don’t scare me.
I never went to church. The priests couldn’t scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I’d pay for it.
You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.
As we saw in the Queen’s Speech, anti-social behaviour – a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories – is the political theme of the moment.
My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love ’em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They’re tiny and fragile and impressionable – and someone else’s! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people’s babies. It’s too much responsibility.
I feel it’s easier to scare or thrill people than to make them laugh.
As a bowler, I was not scared of any batsman. They are not supposed to scare you; you have to scare them.
And besides, I’m so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they’d have to clear out the whole neighborhood.
Chickens scare me. I don’t like them. They seem a little floppy or something.
My wife is my first audience. She’s a tough lady, so I can’t say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
I’m not a big horror movie fan. I am afraid of them; they scare me.
It didn’t scare me to be vulnerable because I think that’s when you get something great.
My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.
Turning 40 didn’t, as a number, scare me or throw me off at all.
I’m into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn’t feel true, I don’t want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that’s why I don’t always fit into the world of performing arts.
I scare the neighbors, the kids… They don’t come to my house for trick-or-treating, trust me. I had to buy exactly zero amount of dollars worth of candy for the past couple of years.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.
I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, ‘Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.’ Even if it’s a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.
Writing doesn’t come real easy to me. I couldn’t write a novel in a year. It wouldn’t be readable. I don’t let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.
Transformations don’t scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.
The devil’s main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we’re scared of him, we’re alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.
I like fighting people that scare me a little bit. People that scare me seem to motivate me, and when you motivate me, you get the best performance out of me.
I’ve struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn’t black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can’t define them.
I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
I’ve got big feet, so filling someone else’s big shoes doesn’t scare me.
From the moment you say ‘action,’ this is the fun part – things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren’t surprising you, when you say ‘cut,’ whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.
I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.
I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn’t really scare me because I don’t think that’s going to happen to me.
It’s harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they’re making the movies better, and I think they feel more original, which I always like.
There are some things that as an actor scare you, and if you can capture that fear on screen, it will be interesting.
When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.
Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn’t scare me. It’s inevitable – I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I’m not that bothered.
I try not to think too much about an audience when I’m writing the first draft of a book – at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I’ve written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.
Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.
Frankly, acting doesn’t scare me because I really enjoy it.
I don’t watch horror movies because they scare me!
I definitely feel, when I’m wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.
My research for ‘Adam’ affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil’s underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
Fear is an underrated emotion. And that’s why I think it’s very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they’re two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
As a performer, the more I scare the stunt coordinator, the better.
I don’t enjoy the boo scare when you’re watching a movie and then suddenly there’s a big shark on the screen. The only thing they’re doing is catching you off guard.
