Top 565 Scared Quotes

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band’s existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I’m sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.

I’m never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y’know.

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody’s scared of.

I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it.

I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn’t like a good horror movie every once in a while? It’s fun to get scared.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don’t want to wait no more. I’m not scared anymore. I’m not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that’s music.

I get a little scared sometimes. A lot of things scare me.

I was not scared at all.

My mother didn’t want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after ‘Hamlet.’ I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don’t get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.

When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.

When I’m scared of hurting myself, I start to overthink things and won’t go for it.

I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I’d be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots.

To get scared is something not in my personality.

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn’t scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

‘The Thing from Another World’ was the first movie that really scared me.

I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.

It’s hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.

I do get scared, but I think – like it says in another book I’ve read – feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I’d rather try, even if I fail.

I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats… for jittery people.

You reach the top of the heap, but it’s a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.

I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold – always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn’t good enough. I wanted to be lower.

It’s fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I don’t feel bad or scared about getting older in terms of my looks or anything like that. I’m not afraid of my face changing. I enjoy seeing my face change. I think it’s really interesting. I wouldn’t want to have same face for my whole life. It would be boring to look at the same face in the mirror for 80 years.

Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.

I think people are scared of progress and change.

On ‘Scandal,’ they’ve proven that they’re not scared of shocking the audience.

I haven’t stopped writing which is good. I’m scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

A label’s typical plan would be to put something out that’s safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

I cant swim underwater. I am claustrophobic and I am scared of creepy crawlies.

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn’t necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in ‘Brotherhood.’ The writing was very smart.

One thing I know that’s true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you’re going up and you’re slightly scared and really excited. You don’t know what’s coming next but you know it’s going to be good. You can’t handle it, go on the carousel.

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.

This is how I started playing: I was playing hooky one day, and the coach and the principal walked up behind me. They scared me, and I ran, and they noticed I could run really fast. They wanted me to come out for the football team.

I started watching some ‘Doctor Who’ recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime – I’m pathetic.

I don’t understand technology, and I’m very scared of it.

But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it’s a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public’s reaction. But i think when we’ll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

I’m always scared of trends. The runways are always so trend-oriented, but I always feel for the women. The real women that buy cosmetics want to see the trends, but they don’t necessarily go for them. And I always encourage women to find what looks best on them.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who ‘did all that stuff to you’ were just as frightened and scared as you are.

I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

The times you have to get up in the middle of the night and hold one of your children because they’re scared of the lightning. Or changing diapers. That togetherness far outweighs the times you don’t get to sleep in.

I have not looked at any of the ‘Pretender’ Web sites. I’m scared of the Internet.

I have never dated. I have no experience. It’s terrible, and I’m scared to death of it, too, at the same time.

It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.

I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don’t have to push things away mentally… If we ‘cotton-ball’ kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.

I’m scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

This is our culture, and I don’t care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn’t have confidence in himself or else he doesn’t believe in what he’s doing.

Going into the Navy was the best decision I ever made in my life because it completely transformed that scared boy who didn’t have any dreams to someone who started to believe in himself.

I always get scared. I can’t read scripts. I’m scared, scary movies and stuff.

The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

I’ve stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they’re not being treated right.

With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren’t supposed to get scared.

I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn’t like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can’t hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon.