Top 494 Scared Quotes

I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I’ve actually done that.

Be original; don’t be scared of being bold!

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I think there’s a reason that horror appeals to teens. There’s a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.

I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

If you want to know what being Canadian is, it’s being part of the human race, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, which has been scared off, warded away, girded against.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn’t getting it and I couldn’t understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn’t let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.

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’m not scared. I always go forward, trying to create space and make my way toward the goal.

I like being scared, so I’ve always liked fairy tales because they’re kind of creepy.

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It’s like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

I was a scared kid… I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else’s lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

I’m watching the Weather Channel more than I’ve ever watched it. I’m scared to death it’s going to rain.

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 wasn’t scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

I’ve never scared anybody in my life.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing’s dark, dark is beautiful too.

I’ve never really been one of those girls who’s scared of showing a bit of flesh.

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.

When you’re scared, you’re still hanging on to life. When you’re ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you’ve never done it before.

The devil’s main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we’re scared of him, we’re alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

Apparently, everyone is most scared of the psychological tests. I didn’t know how I’d fare. What I’ve found out is I may be creative and imaginative, but I’m also extremely together.

I’m fine with being beat-up and pushed around, but I’m really scared of heights and scared of ledges.

Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

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.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you’re scared as hell when it stops.

I’ve always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, ‘God, you don’t get people coming up to you, going, ‘Hey!’ – because they’re scared of you.’

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.

There’s something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

Israel needs to change direction, and this is not just political. We’re becoming more closed-in, more isolated, more scared. Those who talk tough are making the State of Israel very weak, very isolated – very Jewish, in the Diaspora-sense, in that ‘everyone is against us.’ We need to get out of this.

Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night.

I’ve had old people in my life that I really loved – especially women – so I’m not scared about getting old. It’s what’s inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.

I don’t shy away from any questions. I’m not scared of any question. I’ll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism… I’m not scared of people disliking me.

People always make a lot about how I don’t carry grudges. That’s my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can’t live with hatred inside of me. That’s what I learned. I ain’t scared of dying, either.

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.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don’t get scared and say, ‘Oh, no, this film isn’t working.’

That Dutch style of kickboxing, that’s great. That’s hard. It’s very intimidating to stand across from, but you know it’s very rhythmic on the beat. It’s just something: It looks scary, but it’s nothing to be scared of.

What can I say about ‘The Lost Boys’? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I’m scared of it. I had a massive crush on them all when I was young. And I wanted to be a vampire. It’s so stylized; it’s the type of film I grew up on. To me, it’s always at the top.

I think it’s good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don’t have any need for guts.

I mean, they censor your work when they’re scared of it.

I’m not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can’t be afraid of things like that.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that’s what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it’s boring. I think that’s what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he’s always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I’m scared of flying, driving. I’m terrified of sharks. I’m a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

I don’t know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

I think I’d be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

People look at me and go, ‘You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.’ It’s not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I’m just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

I was on ‘Gilmore Girls’ for seven years and had a couple decent years after that. Then, two years of almost nothing. I had jobs here and there, but I got very, very scared.

I’m not the All-Star point guard that everybody’s dreaming about right now. I’m not that. I wish I was, but I’m a work in progress and I’m not scared to admit that. But what I am is a good citizen and a guy who’s not scared to put his neck on the line for his community or for his state. And I’m always going to do that.

I don’t like flying. I’m a bit scared of it and don’t enjoy the whole experience.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

It’s OK to stay at a job that you don’t enjoy, because you’re scared.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.

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.

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they’re so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family’s band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I’d scared myself alive.

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.

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

That’s a curious paradox that I don’t think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it’s not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

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

I’ve produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake.

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 think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it’s just scary to do it. But I’d hate to let the fact that I’m scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don’t want to do.

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don’t ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don’t plan any film career or television career.

I’m scared of the day I turn 19. I really don’t want to grow past 18.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, ‘If I’m going to come out with this, I’m going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can’t just be my story.’

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.

Fear runs our lives. It doesn’t matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.

Be yourself, be an individual – people are scared to be themselves.

Something like riding a horse – which I’ve recently started doing – requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

It’s hard to be scared if you don’t feel for a character, because you don’t care if they die or live.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don’t know what’s next.

You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can’t you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it’s because you are ready to fall in love.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn’t answer the phone.

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I’m just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, ‘If I get a chance, I’m going to score’ and that’s it.

If I’m super scared or sick, I’ll still suck my thumb.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

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.

No hard guy’s not scared when another hard guy’s knife is coming at you. You’re scared, obviously, but you’ve to act less scared than he is. It’s who is going to act less scared.

I’ve been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends – and if I could do it before I scared myself.

I’m scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn’t heard their stuff, I wouldn’t be able to make music.

I’m afraid of everything. But maybe when you’re afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you’re scared of nothing.

Children like being a little scared, but they don’t want to be disturbed.

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don’t think it’s because they’re scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don’t want to alienate an audience.

I work best when a little scared, when there’s so much more than the lines to think about.

Everybody’s scared for their ass. There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism.

I was scared of running off to be a comedian and then having to come back with my tail between my legs.

I’m scared about everything. I’m an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.

As a bowler, I was not scared of any batsman. They are not supposed to scare you; you have to scare them.

At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn’t all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn’t go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.

I need to work with people who are kind and giving. I can’t work with someone I’m scared of.

Don’t be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That’s why there’s no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

I saw ‘Paranormal Activity’ on Halloween with all my friends. It scared me, but it was so much fun.

I don’t like to risk – I’m actually not a tough guy at all, make no mistake about it, so I’m not going to do something that I’m scared of. So, if something looks dangerous, at the time I didn’t think it was, because I’m the first person to cower away from a risk of injury if there seems to be one.

I’ve been broke my whole life, you get what I’m saying? I’m scared of the bank.

I’m not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don’t have that at all – I don’t mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.

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 Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, ‘Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn’t the case. People said, ‘I’m sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?’

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn’t know what to do.

If you stop being scared, that’s when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn’t afraid of looking uncool – he wasn’t scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

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.

Every time I got to play a show, even if it’s already sold out, I’m so scared no one’s going to come.

Love is important. I didn’t have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I’ve always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I’d need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn’t scare me at all. There’s no reason why one should be scared.

I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

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.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful – I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

I usually don’t say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

I’m scared to death to fly commercial… I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what’s safe and what’s commercial.

I was like any new bride, who said, ‘I’m going to cook for my man.’ In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it’s easy to be scared. It’s not hard to imagine what it would be like.

I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can’t hurt a bug.

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.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn’t.

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I’m not scared to be like a character up there.

I’m not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I’m terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it’s never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

I’d rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they’re doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they’ve collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they’re doing with it. I’m not scared by that.

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

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.

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

I had a sore throat for a long time and it scared me. I saw a lump in my throat and I was terrified. I wouldn’t go to a doctor.

I’m comfortable in front of a camera, and I’m used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I’m scared. I really get frightened in front of people.

My dad loved to ‘arrange things’ to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He’d take us to the old ‘Hermit’s House’ at the edge of town. He’d park the car 100 yards down the street and say, ‘Go back there and get something off the front porch!’

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.

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn’t know what I was doing half the time.

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 was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.

It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.

I’m very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.

Even though I don’t necessarily believe in everything that’s supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen.

I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn’t know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn’t stop crying.

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.

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.

I’m honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.

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.

‘Whiplash’ scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

I’ve been scared and I’ve liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I’m in my comfort zone.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook – each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

I was under so much pressure. I often felt scared.

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.

I’m an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn’t tell you.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance. There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we’ll be scared of them, it means they have won.

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see ‘Rosemary’s Baby’… it scared the crap out of me.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people’s perceptions are.

I’m not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I’m a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.

It scared my mom to death when all my friends started driving. She always told me she wanted me to drive, but I think she kind of felt lucky that I didn’t get my permit when all my friends did. I think that’s been the hardest thing for her, watching me go out with my friends and literally drive away.

I just believe in speaking truth and probably that is why leaders are scared of my statements.

There’s something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, ‘Skeleton Creek.’

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

When I became Miss World, I couldn’t believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute, the world changed for me.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who’s been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He’s always scared me, I think he’s evil – he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.

I figure if people don’t want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.

I don’t have a horror film in me just because I don’t like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, ‘Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?’ I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

‘Paranormal 1’ scared me because I didn’t know if it was real or what. ‘Blair Witch’ was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, ‘Oh crap, this could really happen to me.’

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.

We repress the things we’re scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we’re scared of, it’s a much fuller, richer life that’s also not as scary.

What scared me in that debate is that it’s not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don’t even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

David Lynch’s ‘Fire Walk With Me’ has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don’t remember it. I blocked the memory out – repeatedly! I’ve seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.

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 know that if I wasn’t scared, something’s wrong, because the thrill is what’s scary.

I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.

I just don’t like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I’m not a fan of it.

If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they’re scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

Walking into the studio making ‘Scared Hearts Club,’ it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using joy as a weapon because joy is the best weapon against oppression; it’s the best weapon against depression.

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.

I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

Well, the truth is I’m very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they’ve found Jesus Christ, and they’re out there, and I wonder, who’s teaching them? Who’s mentoring them?

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

I think a lot of kids get scared by ‘E.T.’ Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I’ll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, ‘You know, it scared me so much I still can’t watch it.’

People love to be scared. I guess it’s a primal deal.

You have to take control of the crowd because there have been times when they have scared people. The ‘Bayley: This Is Your Life’ segment – the girl who was Bayley’s best friend, the crowd was yelling at her. They were like, ‘Boring, what?’

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, ‘Only children can be abandoned. Adults can’t be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don’t have a choice.’

Every day I run scared. That’s the only way I can stay ahead.

I’ve made myself laugh from some ideas – but I’ve never scared myself.

Showing a videogame character terrified and scared is something that’s not really done that much.

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That’s why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

I’m scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

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

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

I get nervous cooking for our little house party barbecues. I’m very insecure with my cooking. I tend to throw things away that I’m scared of serving, even though they might be great.

I honestly think I’m the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

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.

I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

I ain’t gonna get this, it’s a horror movie, it’s hard to act scared.

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.

The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God.

I work in a studio with lots of young people, most of whom are my former students. We delight in trading YouTube videos! We all stop working to watch them. I’m totally addicted to anything with kittens and puppies, but ‘Very Scared Kid’ is one of my favorites.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

I love Russia. Some people love Africa, some people love Mexico, some people love purple, the color purple. I love Russia, and I’m not scared to say it.

There’s just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you’re not cold, act like you ain’t nervous, act like you aren’t scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

I live my life – I walk the right path – but I can’t be like, ‘Oh, I’m scared of this or that.’

I taught myself confidence. When I’d walk into a room and feel scared to death, I’d tell myself, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody.’ And people believed me. You’ve got to teach yourself to take over the world.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

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.

My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of ‘Revolver Rani’ in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.