Top 30 Petrified Quotes

I’m petrified of spiders, I’ve just never liked them.

I’m petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it’s important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life.

I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolutely petrified because you can’t take anyone with you, and no other sportspeople were there. There was the head of the military, and then the Queen sat next to me.

I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do, I wanted to learn from him, so I had pleaded with him for two years before he agreed to write and direct ‘Mausam.’ It was our dream project and a wonderful opportunity for us to work as a family.

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they’re having to attend to it all day, and you’re still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.

I’m not that nice – it’s one of those things that reveals itself over time. You could talk to people who know me well; they could give you a laundry list. Except they probably wouldn’t because they’re petrified.

My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year – the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that’s Bermuda’s revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it.

I’m petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you’re not an athlete.

I remember the first time I pulled out of my driveway in my grandparents’ Nissan Ultimate or Centra. I just remember getting in a car that smells like my grandparents, with both my parents standing on the lawn, so petrified. That was my car up until I was 18.

Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums – the media, in particular.

I saw ‘The Shining’ in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn’t really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.

My first gig was at Carle Place High School, which is in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. I was 14, and I was invited to play with this band, and I was so excited, but I was really petrified.

I stayed at home and loved my own company because I was just petrified of everybody else my own age, which I think a lot of people are.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn’t know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

There is this thing called catastrophic thinking – you start thinking that something catastrophic is going to happen. I get on a plane and I think it’s going to crash, I just know it’s going to crash, so you’re petrified.

I didn’t have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls’ boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.

I was petrified about ‘I’m in You.’ I couldn’t wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, ‘Oh, you’re an actor, well, great.’ It was a bit like we’re cut from the same cloth a little bit.

We aren’t upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can’t develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on ‘Jericho,’ that was the only time that I’ve ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I’d get bored.