“You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.”
Fear is universal, but what you do with it is personal. These quotes explore the anatomy of being afraid — from stage fright to existential dread — and the surprising number of good things that sit on the other side of doing something scary.
“One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.”
“You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.”
“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
“The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.”
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
“I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.”
“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
“I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.”
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
“As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.”
“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”
“There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.”
“There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.”
“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”
“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”