Top 270 Terrified Quotes

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

I’m not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I’m terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.

I’m typically pretty terrified to sing in front of people.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

Ever since I was a little kid, there was something about change that scared me so much, but, at the same time, I’ve always been terrified of being stuck, so it’s kind of like a paradox that I’m living.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

When you’re in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that’s the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that’s, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.

I watched ‘Apollo 13,’ and it, like, absolutely freaked me out. I was terrified. I didn’t want to go to space because I thought it was imminent death.

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach – an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance.

I don’t want to brag, but I can make people laugh and then be terrified.

We’re terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don’t know.

I arrived in London and I was terrified. I never wanted to be a celebrity – one minute I was in school and the next I was in London talking to people at a record company. If anything, I didn’t feel in any way worthy.

When you’re hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn’t get any… I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it’s a good place to get writing, because you’re so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.

I get terrified the first day I’m on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

If you’re in California, and it’s raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It’s like it’s raining frogs. They’re terrified.

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I’m geeky like that.

I’m not real good at surfing, and I’m terrified of sharks. That’s, like, one of my main fears. Snakes, sharks, deep water, and commitment. I think those are my four big ones.

I’m not much for cats. I’m terrified of mice. I’ve worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.

When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I’ve been terrified of bees.

Prosecutors frequently overcharge, load up charges on individual defendants, knowing that three strikes laws and harsh mandatory minimum sentences will force people to plea bargain and essentially convict themselves because they’re terrified of doing a life sentence for a relatively minor crime.

I don’t think we were shy so much as we were terrified. Especially when we did ‘Saturday Night Live’ on live TV. We looked really animatronic because we were scared, but it came off as being this alien sort of attitude, which served us well, because people were like, ‘Whoa, this is so weird.’

I have to say a part of me was a little terrified to be only looked at as Shane from ‘The L Word.’ I was very conscious of doing something that would steer me clear or just steer me in a different direction.

I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise and who wouldn’t recognise her younger self.

You numb yourself so you’re not terrified when you’re on TV at 7 o’clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.

Nowadays most men I meet are terrified of me.

This country is rich with awful things to say about everybody. There’s a slur for you and a slur for me – more than one. And because we’re terrified of dealing with them head on, we’ve made them just as easy to warp and defang.

I don’t like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

Why are we so terrified of a natural process that allows for life to be brought into this world? Why do we scramble to hide our tampons when we pull them out of our purses?

When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I’m a character. I understand their point of view, but it’s difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I’m so nervous.

I hate bags. I never carry a bag. I am terrified of bags. I don’t want to have to be responsible for that many things at one time.

I’m not actually terrified of technology. Though I’m certainly not an early adopter, either.

The Tunisian revolution left every Arab dictator in fear; Egypt’s toppling of Mubarak left them terrified – even one of the U.S.’ best allies in the region could fall.

When London first went into lockdown, Mum and I were in the car listening to the radio. We drove to our local Turkish supermarket and saw queues around the building. Everyone looked terrified. I burst into tears when I got home.

My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn’t know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.

I hate spiders; I’m terrified of spiders.

The bravest thing I’ve ever done is fly to New York. I’m simply terrified of aeroplanes – I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It’s a veil; it’s a disguise. It’s defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

I love horror movies. It’s so fun being absolutely terrified. It’s damn hard to shoot, though. I didn’t realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

When I first started, it was a dare. Someone basically said, ‘You’re a tough guy… but I’ll bet you won’t get on a microphone in front of a bunch of people.’ I was terrified, but I did it. Once I broke the ice and got onstage and got some laughs, I thought, ‘That’s not so bad.’

I’m a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I’m agoraphobic. I’m scared to leave my house. I haven’t been alone in, like, two years. I’m either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won’t go anywhere by myself; I’m too terrified.

I’m terrified of performing live.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

I lived to be on stage, and I’m terrified. Terrified before every show.

I seek out things that terrify me, like an improv class. I’m terrified of sharks, but I scuba dive. I’m not good at auditioning, but I force myself to do it all the time. I’ve never met anybody who is fearless, but the more you push against your own boundaries, the easier it becomes to push.

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.