Frightened Quotes

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies.

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.

For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.