I’ve always loved kids, but to have your own little munchkins is unlike anything else. It’s the greatest form of love; it’s challenging and scary, but so rewarding and exciting.
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Anytime you have issues with your heart, that’s scary, but I’ve taken every test that you can take.
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn’t scary. It doesn’t imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
Ever since ‘Single White Female,’ the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants has become an abiding literary trope.
For most people, tweeting is scary.
I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.
The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.
I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.
They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It’s scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.
For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.
Making a film is so scary, and there’s such a kind of void that you’re working from initially. I mean, you can have all the ideas and be as prepared as possible, but you’re also still bringing people together and saying, ‘Trust me,’ even when you don’t necessarily trust every element.
There’s the cool factor, right? You see your face on a sign or your name on something, like, ‘Ahh! Here I am!’ And then there’s a huge responsibility and the scary part of it, which is like, ‘Now what happens?’ And then you realize, ‘Oh, yeah, this is my job.’
This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it’s scary what it does on a global scale. I’m very much caught between the two.
I don’t have a sidekick – no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I’m lonely. It’s scary.
What sets ‘Archie’ apart from the many, many times I’ve reworked and rebooted long-standing characters is that this time, it was really scary.
I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn’t hold up – it’s too much plot, audiences just didn’t want to hear about it.
My dad, in the best way possible – not in an intimidating way, but with the physically intimidating qualities that every father has – can truly be scary. The only time you saw that side of him, the raw side of him, would be in a moment when you truly were the one that screwed up.
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the ’30s and ’40s. I liked scary books.
I love making scary faces, that’s just how I grew up.
My father is a big guy; he’s had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that’s scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don’t want that.
It’s almost scary how good things are right now. I’ve been engaged now for about a year, and it’s the first time anything like that has happened to me.
Not wearing hijab has seriously, seriously hurt my career. Mass media wants to see a woman in a veil. But I think it helps me because it makes it easier for my audience to relate to me. I’m not the scary ‘other’ they keep seeing on ‘Fox News.’
I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it’s just scary to do it. But I’d hate to let the fact that I’m scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don’t want to do.
I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.
Crying is scary to men! To us, it’s a sign that something completely earth-shattering is happening.
I’ve been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It’s great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it’s all fixed so it’s a scary thing.
I’m a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.
We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He’s really dumb.
All acting is nudity. It’s all vulnerable – and a little bit scary.
People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it’s so scary – it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.
The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone – it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it’s also very interesting.
After you take time off, it can be really scary to do the harder things you used to do, and I personally hate being scared.
I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When ‘Obscure Object of Desire’ came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren’t in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.
You know you’ve made it when you’ve been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls – it’s a bit scary, actually.
Putting out a debut album is a bit scary – I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem’s increased involvement has been such a blessing; I’m getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.
It’s not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody’s an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton’s an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.
Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the way and get back on course. Never giving up – that’s what I truly believe all the greatest bands have done.
You don’t have a Batman without Bruce Wayne. Batman is the edge or scary image for Bruce to use.
It’s the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People’s imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters – not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that’s why we decide we’re done. It’s getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.
I can’t imagine making something that is made only to be scary. For me, the darkness and scary material has to have meaning attached to it, or I can’t invest the time and energy it takes to write and script or make a movie. It has to mean something.
I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it’s scary how things can go wrong. But if there’s no risk involved, it’s not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
Doing ‘Mamma Mia’ was scary full stop, so playing a young Colin Firth was even more intimidating. I just had to keep reminding myself that I was playing Harry and not Colin Firth, which psychologically felt better.
It’s depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he’s fourteen now and in two years he’s going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I’m not going to always be there.
I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it’s just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ‘cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.
‘The Exorcist’ is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.
On a global scale, the way Trump talks about dealing with foreign policy is very scary.
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It’s very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don’t view myself as a political person. I’m just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
Public speaking is scary, I think. I’ve gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, ‘I’m a YouTuber,’ then that’s easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it’s never fine. In front of adults, it’s like, ‘Ahhhh they’re going to judge me.’
