We are all dually feminine and masculine. To give in to both of those things would strengthen us as human beings and there is such a drastic difference between men, and men who are terrified of their own femininity.
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I’m on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn’t.
I was and am an ardent environmentalist and I am terrified of the instability that climate change will bring.
I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn’t afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.
I believe that there are moments in everyone’s lives where a door flings open, and if you’re terrified of what’s on the other side, you must walk through it.
There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.
I think I would’ve been a bit terrified to have gone and done a lead straight away. Obviously great if you do, but it’s all about longevity.
Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.
Being alone on stage without a character to hide behind has always terrified me but I’ve always been one for facing my fears.
I was terrified of being a mum because I didn’t think I’d ever be grown up enough.
I’m terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, ‘Hurry up and enjoy yourself.’ No one wants to know that.
I’ll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don’t know, I’m just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.
I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they’re both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that’s almost happening, never quite totally happening.
I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.
I’d spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.
I’m terrified to get married. I’m not getting married till my gay friends can.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
As women, many of us have internalised our lives as a prolonged version of boot camp, a sort of Darwinian call to toughen up or perish. As young women, we are terrified that men we consider our mentors can turn out to be monsters.
There’s nothing appealing about the Elimination Chamber. When I first walked into it, I was terrified. You start out the match in these pods, and you’re just watching everyone go at it, waiting for your time.
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
There are too many conservatives who are terrified of being labelled. They’re afraid of being labelled, and they’re afraid of being not liked.
I’m terrified that I’m genetically predisposed to only having boys. That’s frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I’m not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.
I didn’t tell anyone in school that I was going to be in ‘Skins.’ I was terrified of them putting me down.
I am terrified of sharks, so I don’t surf!
For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can’t imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I’d curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.
I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it’s a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.
I’m terrified of cliches.
I have learned that I am terrified of everything, but I can get the job done.
When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.
I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn’t wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn’t do my job.
I looked at Putin and was terrified from the very beginning. That makes me look very prescient because he actually turned out to be exactly the monster that I thought he was.
The E.U. is terrified that we might become a competitor on its doorstep and that is exactly what we should be.
There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.
On channels terrified of accusations of bias, or political retribution, comics making jokes about the growing power base of far-right politicians aren’t taking the ‘easy’ route.
I’ve always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.
I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
I was terrified of girls until sophomore year of high school. I couldn’t even borrow pencils from them. I’d have to wait until the teacher called me out on it, like, ‘Does anybody have a pencil for Teddy?’ because I’d be too scared to ask the girl next to me.
I don’t know why so many artists talk about the mainstream’s problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it’s almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.
I’m terrified of routine.
People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: ‘What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?’ The answer is: We don’t know, and some people are so terrified to say, ‘I don’t know.’
I’m terrified of getting what I’m not deserving of, feeling that I’ve got something for nothing… at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.
It took me forever to get comfortable. When I first started NXT, we had promo classes, and I used to get so upset because I couldn’t get in front of a crowd and talk. I was terrified.
In February 1969, 25 years ago, I arrived as a young, terrified PFC on this lonely little hill in Quang Ngai Province. Back then, the place seemed huge and imposing and permanent.
I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch ‘Dateline’ and ’48 Hours.’ And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.
Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
In the 1970s, family history wasn’t yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book ‘The Social Origins of Private Life.’ It should have been ‘As Pompous as You Want to Be.’ Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.
I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase ‘I hate’. I really don’t like the word ‘hate.’ Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky – but not ‘hate.’
I love ghost stories. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James’ ‘Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary’ under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories, completely terrified but absolutely loved them.
