Top 50 Scaring Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Scaring Quotes from famous people such as Nick Cave, Vijayashanti, Matt Duffer, Edith Widder, Stephen Collins, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that

People often can’t separate, or can’t understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it’s a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there’s a deep anxiety going on.
Nick Cave
Every person is scared of which bomb Modi will drop at which minute. He is appearing like a terrorist. Instead of loving his people, he is scaring them. This is not a characteristic of a Prime Minister.
Vijayashanti
We just loved scaring ourselves.
Matt Duffer
In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle’s TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.
Edith Widder
I have an almost seven year old… I think it’s essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.
Stephen Collins
I generally follow my own compass and make films about what’s scaring me.
Eli Roth
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you’re losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it’ll wake them up.
Leo Kottke
Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child’s ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
Richard Corliss
Working on ‘Austin and Ally’ has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it’s scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other’s dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
Laura Marano
I like to introduce people to new things without scaring them.
John Torode
Working on ‘Austin and Ally’ has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it’s scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other’s dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
Laura Marano
I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.
Tom Felton
Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.
Jared Polis
I thought, if a man has a girl’s name and he’s still scaring people, then maybe I should try doing it so I can be that guy.
AJ Tracey
I don’t like scaring people off. When I tell people I’m a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I’m weird.
Amy Gerstler
There aren’t enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.
Greg Ginn
There aren’t enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.
Greg Ginn
There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
Maika Monroe
When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don’t know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.
Michael Feldman
I laugh a lot in horror films. If I’m scared in a horror film, I try to think about what’s scaring me… particularly, if it’s a bad movie, but something they’re doing still works. It’s the same way I look at comedy. I’ve always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.
Jason Reitman
Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child’s ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
Richard Corliss
I don’t like scaring people off. When I tell people I’m a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I’m weird.
Amy Gerstler
I like scaring myself.
Melanie Martinez
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
David Whyte
What was scaring me was if we lost, I didn’t know how I’d play cricket again. This was such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a World Cup final at Lord’s.
Jos Buttler
I enjoy scaring people.
Anthony Horowitz
YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?
Alison Owen
In a post-9/11 world, ‘Batman’ is less about scaring bad people into the shadows than he is about bringing good people out into the light.
Scott Snyder
I enjoy scaring people too much to let it go!
Neil Marshall
I don’t think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn’t achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
Alan Cranston
I have an almost seven year old… I think it’s essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.
Stephen Collins
YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality T

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?
Alison Owen
Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge ’cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
Frank Miller
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn’t get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they’re going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?
Luis von Ahn
I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.
Tom Felton
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
David Whyte
I enjoy scaring people.
Anthony Horowitz
I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can – without scaring people off too much, I guess.
Thundercat
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.
Gwyneth Paltrow
I mask every single day. I mask every morning – since I was 27 years old. I don’t care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it’s my routine that I commit to every single day.
Tamron Hall
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
Karin Slaughter
In a post-9/11 world, ‘Batman’ is less about scaring bad people into the shadows than he is about bringing good people out into the light.
Scott Snyder
I don’t know how to produce work if it’s not something that’s deeply scaring me or troubling me.
Stephen Karam
When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
Alan Cumming
We just loved scaring ourselves.
Matt Duffer
I don’t think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn’t achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
Alan Cranston
Being an actor, you know what it feels like to be directed, so when the chance comes for you to direct someone else, you know how to approach an actor without scaring them off, without making them clam up, without making them feel insecure, without getting them in their head.
Camila Morrone
When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.
Tucker Carlson
Being an actor, you know what it feels like to be directed, so when the chance comes for you to direct someone else, you know how to approach an actor without scaring them off, without making them clam up, without making them feel insecure, without getting them in their head.
Camila Morrone
I don’t know how to produce work if it’s not something that’s deeply scaring me or troubling me.
Stephen Karam