Frightened Quotes

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up.

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

Wars are begun by frightened men.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.