The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
The acting life can be quite scary, really.
I think it’s kind of a scary time we’re getting into – like, when you’re hanging out with people, they’d rather be on the phone than talk to you.
Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.
You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and you realize that you’re gonna have to kill them, that fear creeps in. It’s sad. It’s scary, and it’s also sad. Because you like these people.
The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.
‘Animal Kingdom’ was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
When you knock people out, it’s sometimes a very scary situation – but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it’s funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, ‘I wouldn’t fight that guy.’
Students never think it can be the teacher’s fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn’t do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it’s how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the ’90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I’ve been on.
I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing’s gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.
We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it’s scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It’s scary when they say you’re having a moment, because moments are momentary.
Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.
I think I probably have a creepy kind of scary quality. Otherwise, I wouldn’t get jobs. But I also think it has a little bit to do with, you’ve done it a couple times, and then people see you that way.
I pretend something scary is in front of me.
After every fight, I knock myself down. I start from scratch again. I say, ‘I’m not as good as I thought.’ It makes you work harder. It makes you push harder. It’s more than money. It’s more than the title. It’s my pride, and it can be scary thinking about it. I could lose. It’s scary.
I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
I’ve chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were challenging and a little bit scary.
I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it’s scary, and it’s going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.
I know that if I wasn’t scared, something’s wrong, because the thrill is what’s scary.
I don’t see scary movies. I’ve never seen ‘The Exorcist’ or ‘Jaws’.
Flea markets are fun because they are the ultimate treasure hunt. Be open to the fact that you never know what you’ll find. The most beautiful, quirky, funny, scary pieces may not have an intrinsic value.
If you don’t find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don’t have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don’t learn how to control your fear.
It’s not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, ‘This is how much I love you,’ you know? It’s scary to do that.
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It’s really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
You gotta go out and do the stuff that’s going to be pushing the sport and stuff that’s going to be next level and scary. It’s all about going out and doing those tricks and pretty much surviving.
It’s not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it’s real. When you’re watching one, the terror bombards you.
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.
The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early ’90s, right when I first started playing music.
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.
Part of the criteria for doing a project is that it’s scary or challenging because at some point you go, ‘It’s too scary; it’s too challenging. I don’t want to do it.’ But things that seem easy are never any fun.
I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn’t me writing about someone else’s life story. It was really exciting to try.
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn’t going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone’s total global embrace of technology.
It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, ‘What’s up? I’m gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.’ I don’t feel like I’m a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.
I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I’m so blessed, it’s almost scary. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.
For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that’s what’s going to happen on ‘The Haunting Hour:’ you’re always going to want to know what happens next.
Dexter-Land is a dark and scary place, and I couldn’t live there permanently. To be honest, I don’t think I even want to visit.
I have no problems with my eyes. It was because when I became big, I suddenly I found myself playing on stage with 200,000 people, and that is scary. I remember my manager told me just put on a pair of sunglasses, and that should mitigate the panic. So I tried it, and it worked.
I’m at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I’m playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It’s exciting and scary.
I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
The first show I did with Coldplay was really scary.
I always say: ‘Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,’ but some things make me question it. I don’t know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that’s really scary.
For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there’s a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That’s how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
If I can laugh with people, it makes me feel safe with them. If I feel someone has no sense of humour, I find it really scary. I do it with the kids as well: put on stupid voices to lighten up the spirit or gee them along to do something.
I think crafting a new, effective horror movie is not just about when night falls and things get scary. It’s about setting a tone and mood that permeates throughout the entire movie. So even during the daytime, things are never quite safe-feeling.
I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn’t have any time to work things out. It’s been pretty scary at times.
I’ve always said if I had to pinpoint what’s more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I’d pick the sound.
When you’re doing that TV thing, you’re doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary.
