Scared Quotes

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

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

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

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

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

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.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.

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

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

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 never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?