Scared Quotes

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

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 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'm scared of actors with a scheme.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

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

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

Failure? Scared to death of it.

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

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.

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.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

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.

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

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

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

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

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.