You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we’re not like that… we’re more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them – they feel good.
I’ve never scared anybody in my life.
I can’t imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.
When you face a ‘performance’ that might provoke the ‘I’m scared’ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‘Dancing with the Stars!’
Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn’t make sense in people’s minds. If I’m white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I’m going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.
There are a lot of folks that look like me that aren’t scared anymore, that are tired of the comments and the derogatory remarks that are made because of our political philosophy.
I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.
My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.
I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy – you name it – and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I’m not paranoid or scared, I’m open. That’s how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn’t have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work – oh, God.
I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
‘Jaws,’ first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it’s a great movie.
A lot of players are scared to talk because a lot of people aren’t financially stable to where they can make comments on how they feel about things and not feel like they will get cut or something like that.
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
When people are scared and traumatized, it’s important to listen to them.
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, ‘But, how do you do it?’ They are scared to death to do anything.
Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery ’cause of the release you sign that says there’s always a very small percent chance that you’ll die during the operation.
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
I don’t see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don’t get scared.
I want to fight all the toughest guys in the world. I’m not trying to duck anybody or scared of anybody. I want to fight everybody.
When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
I think that’s what happens when you get scared, and you’re rushing, and you don’t have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.
I come from a place where there’s violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn’t scared I was just really looking forward to it.
When you’re older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn’t just looking back at you.
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, ‘You’ve got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.’ And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied – so much so that there were days when I was like, ‘I can’t go to school today.’ I was too scared.
These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.
On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I’m not scared to be like a character up there.
Many people in the intellectual elite are very scared of shouting. They insist on very quiet murmurs.
Every time you go up to the board, you get scared. It’s more like adrenaline, though – you feel pumped and ready to go.
One thing about television in Britain is that they’re so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
I’m not scared of Jon Jones or Chris Weidman or whoever. I’m here to fight. That’s it. It’s simple.
The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn’t know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.
I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it’s that same fear.
Why are people afraid of ghosts? ‘Ooh, no, I wouldn’t want to see one! I’d be too scared’ – accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice – is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I’d think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I’ve never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.
My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I’m scared of. Still to this day. She’s, like, five-two, maybe.
I’m still shy – I’m no good at my children’s parent-teacher conferences, and I’m slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There’s nothing that I’m too scared to have a go at.
There’s no purer feeling in the world than being scared.
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.
I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I’d do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I’d get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.
I remember doing a shoot for Herb Ritts, hanging off the Eiffel Tower – that wasn’t your usual day at the office. It was terrifying, and in the end, you couldn’t really tell how high I was because the photographer was scared of heights, so he was quite far away from me.
I was so worried when I left ‘GH:’ so scared I’d never work again.
The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.
I’m most scared of failing, of disappointing people.
I’m not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It’s just not one of my insecurities.
What I wasn’t prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn’t prepared for the initial feeling of I don’t want to have to do that again. I was scared.
I need someone to woo me. Magazines are always saying I am beautiful and millions of men want to woo me, but none has come forward because they are all so scared.
I think the film you hear about the most is ‘The Exorcist.’ When people come up to me and say, ‘Oh, you scared me!’ I was the good guy in that film!
I don’t think I ever take huge risks, though I’m not scared of doing so.
If you’re too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn’t the right career for you.
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I’ve just never been so scared in my life. I’ve never been so close to death.
As a bowler, I was not scared of any batsman. They are not supposed to scare you; you have to scare them.
Kids love to be scared; we all do. But there’s a difference between leaving them hanging out there, with their fears, and then bringing them safely home. Kids love it when someone like them stands up against real evil, something really horrendous and frightening, and win.
If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn’t be as scared of the Internet.
Don’t ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they’ve put the book down, thinking about the tale that’s become a part of them.
