Scared Quotes by Parker Posey, Stephen Graham Jones, Manny MUA, Terry Pratchett, Elisha Cuthbert, Rainbow Rowell and many others.
My norm for watching scary movies, what I love about it, is when they work and they scare me, which is not that often I’m afraid. The more you know the genre, your taste becomes a little more rarefied and you take a very particular route to the type of movies you like in the genre. But I still get scared.
The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me.
Usually whenever you’re scared of something, do it. If you’re not afraid of it, don’t do it.
We’ve worked together with Carine Roitfeld a lot; she’s been a big supporter and helped me along with everything. Also, just the way she does her magazine – she’s not afraid to do things differently or scared to put certain things in her magazine, a bit of controversy. She’s a bit naughty. She likes sexy things.
I’m always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I’ve never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties… I don’t know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they’re the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they’re scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they’re avoiding commitment altogether.
I think I’m going to be stereotyped forever, but I’m not scared of being stereotyped.
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
The transgender bathroom thing – it’s just so obvious that people are scared of what they don’t understand. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.’
I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It’s hard.
Performing didn’t feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.
The only movie that ever really scared me was The Exorcist,but even then, I was laughing part of the time.
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you’re desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward – well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.
I’m so scared of flying.
He never said “Don’t tell your mama.” He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me… (109)
I was so worried when I left ‘GH:’ so scared I’d never work again.
I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
I want to show people they don’t have to be scared of being different.
I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
I’ve got a good man. He takes care of me. I don’t have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass… disrespect him and you’ve got a problem.
I’m very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I’m not scared.
It’s hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.
I love Child’s Play 2! That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That’s why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie – a blatant, studio horror movie – but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme, because I don’t think adults listen to children enough.
Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night.
Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you’re in the moment and you’re riding a train and you’re asked to look scared, I don’t know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you’re actually doing some of the stunts, then it’s not so hard at all, because there’s an actual fear there.
I hear them mumblin, I hear the cacklin I got em scared, shook, panickin
According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it’s normal for human beings to be anxious, because it’s normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don’t understand yourself, you’re uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you’re anxious, Buddha’s teaching is to practice being patient with it.
With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.
I was traumatized by the cartoon version of ‘The Hobbit.’ It’s not supposed to be scary, I don’t think, but literally I think that’s the most scared I’ve ever been.
We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you’re around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.
Art should walk a tightrope. That’s what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can’t be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?
So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.
People are scared of the truth.
I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a white person before.They gave one look at me and ran away! They were scared, but eventually I got their trust.
I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn’t do my job. But now, as an actor, I’m literally paid to look emotionally accessible.
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
The thing I’m scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There’s so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don’t really get to be afraid of anything else.
You don’t have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won’t get better and that I won’t have time to practice. To be called a ‘jazz musician’ – it’s a big responsibility.
We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that’s why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
Whenever you’re at a poker table – and you’re betting all of your chips – you’re worried, you’re scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That’s what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.
I’m not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I’d confront him as well.
I don’t see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don’t get scared.
As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, ‘That’s where all the crazy people go.’ It really sort of frightened me.
Since becoming a mother, I’d say it’s more so affected my general outlook on things. I’m less worried about everything. Less scared to make those numbers that people think are standard or less scared to create something that maybe I don’t think people are going to like, because it’s all about if I like it. I need to be happy.
If you keep running away every time you are scared, then you will do nothing but hide your entire life. Is that really, how a person should live their life? The only way you can get over this fear is by fighting. No matter how scared or afraid you are, you cannot win without fighting.
Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
I get a little scared sometimes. A lot of things scare me.
When I’m out on the field, I’m not scared of anyone.
I haven’t stopped writing which is good. I’m scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.
I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.
I love the 3-D. I’m not one of those guys who’s scared to death of it and think that it’s going to take over everything. I love the fact that you have the immersive 3-D and the voyeuristic 3-D and then you have the in your face gimmicky 3-D and we’re going to do both. I think there’s a place for both.
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.
Publicly, we’re saying we’re better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
Alien is one of my favourite films. I’m a classic horror fan. It’s a tough one for me, because I get scared quite easily.
I’ve got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I’m working – and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.
I didn’t have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn’t really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I’m very scared. I don’t want to be old. I’ve always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
Don’t be scared. I’ll look after you.
That’s the way to go. People say: ‘Oh, he doesn’t want to come back, he’s scared,’ and it’s to play with your brain, to play with your mind. I’m not scared of nobody. I’m not scared of no human being. I’m scared to fight, every time I fight I’m scared, but I’ll bite into my mouthpiece and I’ll walk the walk.
I think it’s chauvinistic to think that women don’t like to get scared.
I’m not scared of Bayern Munich.
Don’t be scared to fly high, ’cause it will inspire others.
I work best when a little scared, when there’s so much more than the lines to think about.
I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn’t.
I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there’s not a safe environment for that.
But it still feels like it’s a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I’m doing a bit better there. But it’s good to be scared.
Be yourself, be an individual – people are scared to be themselves.
You never have to be scared to look to the future for opportunity.
I love you because you’re a child and you’re scared.’ You’re going to hurt me in the end. You’re quite mad.
So scared of getting older I’m only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
I’m so scared of doing theater. I’ve got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.
I never think I’m capable of any of [action movies]! I’m always terrified, but luckily on this one it was directed by my husband [Len Wiseman]. ‘I can’t possibly do it. I’m too scared, I can’t do it.’ He says: ‘Go on. DO it!’ So it is shocking as I’m not one of those people who finds that stuff easy.
Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we’ll be scared of them, it means they have won. But that doesn’t mean we can have a devil-may-care attitude toward this threat. We must do everything to stop these threats and not give the terrorists a single chance to demonstrate their brutality and hatred of mankind.
Success for me will be where the body of work I’ve done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I’m capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.
I’ve seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I’m not scared.
So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That’s my favorite compliment.
Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn’t have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all ‘live’ and I enjoyed it so much.
A good indication that it’s not is if you’re only staying with What’s His Name because you’re scared.
When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.
I think horror movies are still – this can be said of all movies – but being with a group of people scared together is more and more something unusual and fun. Especially for kids who are going out less generally.
For years, I didn’t give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
People are scared man, they’re scared of the void.
I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.
I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.
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.
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It’s an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.
I’m scared of audiences.
Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I won’t remember?
I know that sounds weird, but it’s hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,”- Greg
Safe is just another word for scared.
Being scared is really a good thing. It’s being scared of being scared that’s bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity – that’s what an artist is, that’s what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.
I was not scared of anything, when I read my book.
Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That’s when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.
I’m not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn’t it?
You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah‘s help).
But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that’s the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn’t anybody laughing. I haven’t heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Don’t be so scared of dying that you stop living.
Every day I run scared. That’s the only way I can stay ahead.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful – very powerful.
You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it’s everything and if you don’t do well, your life’s over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.
I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don’t get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.
Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you’re funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there’s no sense hiding what you feel.
The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn’t know it at the time.
I don’t really have a problem ’cause I know who these people are, I know that they’re scared to death. I know these leftists with scared and they oppose and that they’re inflexible.
Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you.
I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don’t have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don’t have a good breakfast!
I just love jumping into someone else’s life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.
I said, going into acting, ‘I’m never moving to L.A.,’ because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.
America’s angry. America’s scared. They want security from their country.
I can’t sit and compare my trouble to Brian Wilson but I came from a blue-collar family of fishermen. Music was an escape and a way for me to dream of better things and a better place to be. Let’s just say I was an insecure, scared kid.
I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There’s this thing in our society that you’re not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.
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.
The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who’s not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He’s done it probably a dozen times or more.
I didn’t want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.
It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
I’m not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It’s just not one of my insecurities.
We’re fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It’s a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we’re scared of, but it certainly doesn’t define us.
Oh, ‘The Thing’ is one of my favorite movies of all time. That changed my life because I was like, ‘I’ve got to do this.’ Something that scared me that much? It was the first R-rated movie I ever saw, and I was like, ‘Dude, I’m changed.’
I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.
If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I’m doing the wrong thing.
I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That’s what we have to count on.
I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.
I feel you gotta be nervous. If you’re nervous, it’s just ’cause you want to do well, it’s not ’cause you’re scared.
Dont get scared of death. Get rich! Then die.
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.
If you scared to take chances, you’ll never have the answers…
Even though I don’t necessarily believe in everything that’s supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.
I’m scared of ghosts and aliens.
