Top 222 Scare Quotes

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I have to admit that I really don’t care for horror movies all that much. I think mainly just because I’m a cheap scare.
Marco Beltrami
The problem of the Panthers is that they scared people. The music of N.W.A didn’t scare people; it taught people what it was like to grow up in our inner cities.
Jerry Heller
I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I’d wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
Michael Shannon
When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures… haha… to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!
Keegan Allen
I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.
Julie Brown
I would love to be employed for the rest of my life… But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I’ve never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?
Nathan Fillion
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think ‘The Ring’ plays more as a psychological thriller. It’s smarter, there’s more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.
Martin Henderson
Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don’t worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.
Claire Coffee
When I have been speaking to people in Braintree and at other places in the country they really didn’t buy into Labour’s economic offer, didn’t buy into scare stories about the NHS and clearly didn’t trust Jeremy Corbyn.
James Cleverly
It’s really hard to scare people on network television. You’ve got to be smart about it. You’ve got to parcel out the scares.
Chris Carter
I’m a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.
Todd McFarlane
Monsters don’t scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it’s a great medium for horror.
Sarah Pinborough
On the sets, I used to scare people. I team up with my level of people and sometimes do spooky things. I’ve inherited this from my mother, as she used to scare my neighbours by dressing up like a ghost.
Manisha Koirala
I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.
Rachel Riley
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong
I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.
Lindsay Mendez
Teaming up with Adaptive Studios and Shudder is a wonderful opportunity to support emerging filmmakers in finding the new horror icon. This is also a great chance to scare and entertain audiences at the same time.
Clive Barker
I was in college and got arrested. It was a real scare for me/wake-up call/’Man, you better do something with your life ’cause you don’t wanna be a bum’ call. That’s really why I took music serious.
Lil Yachty
It’s easy to scare people. It’s easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.
Steve Carr
You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn’t understand.
Jamie Dornan
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.
Mike Flanagan
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Failure doesn’t scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.
Prithviraj Sukumaran
Most of the time, I do what I’m offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.
Domhnall Gleeson
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Ghostly things don’t really scare me, but they really intrigue me.
Sophie Turner
I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they’re so few and far between.
Jane Goldman
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn’t scare me at all. There’s no reason why one should be scared.
Freeman Dyson
A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.
Stephen Curry
The idea that I’m going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I’m going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
Tracey Emin
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
Mo Udall
I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don’t expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.
Mesut Ozil
To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people – so ignoring it doesn’t make a difference.
Lauren Mayberry
The White House wants us talking about racism and the justice system because they use it as a springboard to scare Americans about looting, aided by Fox News running episodes of violence on an incessant loop, that their hearts and minds won’t be able to look past the fear to see injustice.
Brianna Keilar
To be honest, marriage doesn’t scare me and that, it’s just once you’ve been together for so long, if you haven’t got any kids it’s just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn’t it?
Karl Pilkington
Rap is supposed to scare soccer moms.
Killer Mike
I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy… I wanna scare people.
Richard Schiff
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one’s mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.
Steven Biko
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn’t intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we’re going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
Hillary Clinton
There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
Tupac Shakur
The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.
Kane
Success doesn’t scare us. I think we have staying power.
Dave Clark
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters
Well, in the ’80s and ’70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.
Bill Duke
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’ by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
Dorothea Benton Frank
I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn’t scare me, but it’s a lonely place, even if you’ve got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn’t get home, if I couldn’t get back to what I consider my real life I’d be frightened.
Shirley Henderson
There won’t be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn’t scare me.
Matt Drudge
I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn’t want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.
Holly Marie Combs
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
Aaron McGruder
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
Wes Craven
I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndr

I’ve have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there’s not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.
Dash Mihok
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.
Banks
The nice thing about living in a semi-small town is that I can just go home and switch off. I go home now and I trim roses, rake leaves, wake up early in the morning and scare the raccoons off the lawn! It’s kinda nice, that’s the way I turn off, in Bakersfield, California.
Gregory Porter