Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
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.
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.
The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.
You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this - It's not about not being scared - it's about being scared and doing it anyway - that's bravery.
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.
It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.
You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.
Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.
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