Top 66 Scariest Quotes

Because my husband, Peter, died young, I’ve already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.

‘Hansel and Gretel’ is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I’m really feeling intimidated, I’ll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I’ll pick a year that’s missing and ask for that one.

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There’s a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That’s the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples’ lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don’t know how actors do that! It’s the scariest thing in the world.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

I think we all get into situations where we don’t know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that’s also what makes us ‘grow up’ and learn a lot about each other.

You can pick out the scariest dude on the tour and, guaranteed, he’s probably a smush – I just find that so incredibly attractive.

Mickey and the Bear’ was the scariest choice I’ve made in my career because I feel pretty safe in the world of comedy and everything else, but I don’t feel safe in deep, dark, scary roles that I took on like ‘Mickey and the Bear.’

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.

The scariest thing I’ve ever had about a long drive is almost falling asleep a couple of times. Those moments where you maybe should have pulled over and taken a nap, like, a couple of hours ago.

If someone’s got a fear of heights, they’d probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that’s a day’s work, something I was very happy to do.

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

When I sat down and knew I was going to go to the UFC, I thought of Edson Barboza and I almost had a panic attack. And then right away I called my manager Ali Abdel-Aziz. I said, ‘Ali, that’s the fight I want.’ I think it’s the worst fight in the lightweight division for me, the scariest.

One of the scariest things about ISIS is their ability to leverage social media to inspire individuals who have never been to Syria and Iraq.

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that’s the first impression it’s going to make. And very often it’s portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will scare you stiff and yet give you energy. Chennaiites give me the loudest laughs; it’s the coolest crowd to perform for.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we’re being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it’s like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

I haven’t seen ‘The Exorcist,’ but I’ve seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don’t actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don’t know what it is, but even though it’s quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I’ve ever seen in my life.

I think scary movies work best when they’re relatable, and I think one of the scariest things to young people now is bullying. Either doing it, being on the other end of it, being caught doing it.

I think I’d have to say that ‘The Shining’ is my scariest movie ever.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Every Monday night, there was a scary movie on Spanish TV, so my parents used to send me to bed. I remember lying there, listening to the TV, and imagining the movie in my head. And so probably the scariest movies I ever saw in my life were the ones I imagined.

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

I think that was the scariest part about bobsled, is when you just don’t know what’s happening, you don’t know where you are on the track, you don’t know when it’s going to be over, and you don’t know what it’s supposed to feel like.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It’s not funny. It’s not for the movies.

Some of the scariest movies I’ve seen are not considered horror movies, like ‘Gone Girl.’ That movie scared me. I can’t watch it again.

The scariest thing is to go into a new situation for myself, and yet I have a job where I do that every few months, meet a hundred new people, and then have to perform in a very highly pressurized environment.

I think it’s important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that’s good.

I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that – it still seems freaky.

‘The Exorcist’ is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.

As an actor, you have to face the public all the time. It is a job that people fantasies, but it also creates prejudices; these prejudices are the scariest things. People judge a personal life or your image, and it can affect the characters I play. Therefore, I try not to showcase my personal life too much.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It’s the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

The scariest film in the world is ‘Rosemary’s Baby.’

That’s the scariest thing is when people feel like they’re alone.

I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.

On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they’re also allowed to take candy from strangers – the scariest thing of all.

For me, the scariest moment is walking on set before we shoot the first shot, and I am so anxious. It’s a lot of pressure, and it’s scary, and I don’t think that fear ever goes away.

One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry’s first movie, ‘Diary of a Mad Black Woman.’

The thought of going through a bone marrow transplant, which in my case called for a life-threatening dose of chemotherapy followed by a total replacement of my body’s bone marrow, was scary enough. But then I learned that finding a donor can be the scariest part of all.

The scariest movies, to me, are like Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour.’

My favorite movie of all time is ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’ I think Hannibal Lecter is the scariest movie monster ever because he’s smarter than you are.

I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see that as one of the scariest things ever. And then also, I’m really not a fan of spiders and bugs.

I’ll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

The whole thing about dating was the scariest thing in the world. And I would tell my friends, ‘I’m never going to find anyone. Where am I going to find someone? By now, I’m 59 years old. Where do you meet men?’ It was really funny. So I just focused on myself.

The scariest part is when you are coming down the wave and there is all this water coming down the wave and your feet are coming out of the straps.