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 am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well I'm not a good terrified person.
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.