I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
Growing up, I used to think I’d never get on a plane – I was terrified. But when I joined Mis-Teeq, being on a plane was my job. I used to scream on flights. Full-on screams.
I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind – you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.
There are roles that are terrifying because they’re large or you may feel that they’re out of your line, but I’m never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it’s small building blocks. It’s solving little problems one at a time.
I’m having a tough time coping in showbiz. I’m absolutely terrified of it. Each time you walk out, somebody wants to click a picture.
I’m absolutely terrified of spiders.
I honestly think I’m the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.
I love music, I love to sing, but I am terrified of singing in public.
No, I can never feel comfortable. It’s not a good thing. Always better to be terrified.
I’m terrified of flying and have tried everything from prescription drugs to booze and herbal remedies. The only thing that works is Valium. I don’t know why I’m so frightened – I think it’s from seeing my mum freak out when I was young.
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
It’s hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
I had always known that I was ‘different.’ I didn’t really understand it all until I got older. But there was always this foreboding sense something was ‘wrong.’ I never knew how to talk about it. I just remember feeling terrified about what would happen if someone found out. It was a very lonely feeling.
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you’ll buy products that they’re advertising.
I’m terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
For me, it’s not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It’s interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It’s about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it.
I’ve always been terrified about not having money. I’ve been a big saver and a big earner. When I’ve been out of work, I’ve always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn’t have the things I wanted.
I’m terrified of being too famous. What I’m really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it’s me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified.
My wife is terrified. She thinks I’m going to race forever.
We’re so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there’s something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you’re going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn’t have to be this big, negative bummer.
It’s very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what’s going on. Think about it: You’re in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what’s going on on-screen takes a lot of work.
The first time I did ‘The Voice,’ I was honestly terrified. You’re with Tom Jones and Will.i.am, seriously mega-talented people, and I felt like I was winging it. Then you realise everyone is in it together.
Scare yourself every day, and do something that makes you feel totally excited and totally terrified.
I’m terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
My phobias worsen as I get older. I’m scared of flying, driving. I’m terrified of sharks. I’m a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.
There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.
I don’t really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it’s incredibly lucrative, I’m just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.
I’m terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.
I’m always terrified when I’m writing.
I was terrified to be my true self because I felt that it wasn’t enough. But I allowed myself to break down those walls.
I had a sore throat for a long time and it scared me. I saw a lump in my throat and I was terrified. I wouldn’t go to a doctor.
I actually am terrified of horror movies. I’m very sensitive. But for me, I get so scared of horror movies that if I know something is coming I’ll actually pause the movie and fast forward.
The likelihood of John having an affair with Brian Epstein is absurd, and actually impossible. Even when Phil Spector once tied up and threatened male sex against him, John was terrified.
I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
I’d never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified – I couldn’t sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.
To have come here as an intern for the ‘Today’ show, to shoot that reel – I looked so serious. To be terrified like that and then to come and sit at this desk, to sit next to my friend Peter Alexander every Saturday, it is the honor of a lifetime.
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
Flying is awful, there’s nothing to do when you’re up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I’m terrified.
It’s very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the same day multiple times, in quick successions, it’s different and sort of a really rare opportunity that I was initially terrified by and a little bit daunted by.
If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
That’s what my mother did. And my father was the first person she’d met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
The first time I ever deep-fried something, I was terrified. I was making yeasted jelly donuts, and I was so nervous that I fried them, unblinking, with a pounding heart and sweaty palms.
Whenever I’m terrified of anything, I jump to it.
That was the biggest fear for me – being seen without my straight hair, my makeup or fake tan, being seen without my armour on. That terrified me.
I’m never funnier than when I’m heartbroken or terrified.
I’d probably do I’m a Celeb’ but I just reckon that I wouldn’t be very good at it because I’m terrified of everything.
I was once so terrified of acting that I used to pretend I was ill to get out of drama.
I think a lot of opportunities would have come easier to me if I had felt more comfortable and confident in my own skin and not terrified of the world around me.
I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
Sometimes I feel like, those superheroes, if you threw a cookie at them, they would be more terrified than the villain because they might have to eat a carbohydrate.
When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I’m trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.
I’ve always felt alienated. I realized that I’ve been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.
I’m only going to work now when I’m terrified.
I’m saying, let’s learn to reacquire a respect for the power of guns. This culture is so indifferent and disrespectful of guns that we should be terrified.
I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.
When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.
Creativity hits me like a lightning bolt. For two weeks ideas overflow and spill from me, before a period of nothing. The prospect of it suddenly just leaving me one day scares me. I’m terrified that every song I write might be my last.
