Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
I really like getting the person who is terrified of cooking into the kitchen and showing them that cooking can be both indulgent and fun.
Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.
I despise – I hate – I’m terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn’t because everybody I know who’s awesome loves it.
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
I didn’t read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I’m so, so sorry I couldn’t read when I was younger.
I’m a night person, but because of being in the film business and having children, my schedule has shifted, and I’m always terrified that I’m going to oversleep.
I didn’t set out to be liked – everyone’s supposed to be terrified of me. I’m surprised by the amount of viewers who want the Chaser to win!
Painting my nails was one of the things I liked to do, and I was so terrified of, like, ever letting anybody see my nails painted.
Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I’d have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn’t start a family because that’s not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.
I’ve chronicled a time when I was 17, 18, utterly terrified that you’re not gonna get anywhere with whatever you want to do. It’s that fear and claustrophobia that I think comes to most people living in small towns. But I am lucky, because I just knew that music was my thing.
Circuses don’t treat their ‘performers’ very well – whipping them, trying to make them terrified.
I’m terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don’t know what I’d say, how I’d react. But I couldn’t go through with it, not at all. I suppose I’ve been terrified of them all along.
I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone.
Whenever I leave home to film, my wife Marina gets terrified that I’m going to come back having bought a tiny plot of land in rural Alaska.
A cardio-funk class – I should have at least taken one of those. But it’s always terrified me. I’m never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.
I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that ‘gatekeepers’ make me terrified.
For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening’s experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
I’m terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.
I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.
I was three. My father in jest said that he’d tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn’t behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
I’m terrified of mice or any type of rodent.
I’m so terrified to write that I don’t type at all.
As a female, you’re always terrified that if you blow it, you’ve blown it for your whole gender.
The first case I sat on… was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.
My first Top of the Pops I didn’t want to do. I was terrified. I’d never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
People are so terrified of other people. I see it in my generation a lot. There’s so much anxiety and angst, and the pressure just keeps getting worse.
People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It’s because they’re a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I’d be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. ‘They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they’re going to do this; they’re going to do that.’
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.
I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading poetry of my own, which terrified me, but I had to do it. I picked up a guitar and started learning guitar.
I was terrified to do ‘G.I. Joe.’ I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn’t work, it’s a huge hit on your career. People are like, ‘Well he couldn’t make a $170 million movie work. I don’t want him in my film.’
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
You’re terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
Singing on Broadway terrified me more than anything I’ve done.
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls’ education? Because there’s no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn’t drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
‘The Stepfather’ was the first time I sort of carried a film, or led in a film, and doing it was fun, and I felt very special. Afterwards, though, I was terrified. I just thought, ‘Wow, this is basically going to be about me. If this film is a success or a failure, a lot of it’s on me!’
I think that’s what we’re all most terrified about: that we’ll just die and disappear and we’ll leave no trace.
The kind of boy’s club I’m used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, ‘I’m sensitive and nerdy,’ but actually, it’s like, ‘You’re a huge child and you’re terrified of women, but you don’t like sports, so you think that makes you less of a misogynist.’
People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
I started out doing triathlons because they terrified me! I’m a good swimmer, I learned to ride a bike in college, and I hate running. It seemed like something I could never do, so I decided, ‘I’m gonna do it.’
Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn’t get any easier.
Any time I go to a hospital, the doctors treat me like an equal, and I’m terrified I’ll be in the delivery room, and the doctor will say, ‘Noah. Noah, why don’t you get a hand in here?’ and I’ll pass out or throw up and be horribly embarrassed.
I’m terrified of the ocean. I think it’s beautiful and magical, but I never go in. That deep, dark water, with no understanding of what goes on behind it – I think that’s a metaphor for a lot of things.
I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, ‘Me? You’ve got to be joking!’ I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
I’ve always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.
My performances in auditions were so inept that I hardly got any jobs in film or TV. I just could not learn the lines and the thought of doing theatre terrified me. What if I forgot my lines in the middle of a scene with an entire audience watching?
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was – Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.
In a wider sense, I’m terrified about my kids coming down to breakfast and saying, ‘Trump said this and they’ve voted him president?’ How do you explain to your children how to behave as a man in this world?
Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You’re terrified that, when people know the real you, they won’t like you.
When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, ‘You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don’t you?’ In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I’d rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I’m not.
