Scary Quotes - Page 26

• Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

  Jane Fonda

  Writing, Up To You, Pages

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow.

  Anthony Evans

  Clearing Out, People, Littles

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. Its amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

  Graham McTavish

  Believe, Communication, Technology

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• I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Sometimes, Type

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• Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

  Sue Grafton

  School, Kids, Kind

  Sue Grafton (1991). “"G" is for Gumshoe”, Fawcett

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• Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

  Ally Sheedy

  Knowing, Two, People

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• But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a little foreign in order to appear exotic. Real foreign is a little scary, believe me.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “The Middleman and Other Stories”, p.106, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

  Tim Heidecker

  Dad, Men, Your Dad

  "Tim Heidecker Talks Album, Tim & Eric Movie". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2011.

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• [There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell scary stories to your grandkids: "A long time ago when I was growing up, there used to be people who were white," and the kid says, "Really?" and you say, "Yeah, like the man who cuts our grass."' I've had that line forever and I love it.

  George Lopez

  Growing Up, Kids, Cutting

  "Seriously Funny". Interview with Brett Wilbur, www.carmelmagazine.com. February 1, 2007.

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• When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Thinking, Erotic, Stuff

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• Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.

  Gary Haugen

  Brave, Soul, Shapes

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• With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.

  Brittany Murphy

  Technology, People, Lifetime

  Interview with Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 21, 2009.

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• It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Paris, Honor

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• I find looking forward scary because you might die.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Might, Looking Forward, Dies

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

  Spike Jonze

  Emotion, Bigs, Unexplained

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• There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.

  Bill Nighy

  Fun, Mean, Play

  "Bill Nighy Interview - UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS". Roundtable setting, collider.com. August 18, 2008.

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• Making "bad people" seem human is the key to making them really scary.

  Tom Noonan

  Keys, People, Humans

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2009.

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• In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

  Amelia Warner

  School, Thinking, One Day

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• I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.

  Keri Russell

  Thinking, Two, Space

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• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Past, Imagination

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• You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  "Showbiz Tonight" with Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2009.

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• There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Writing, People, Community

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2009.

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• You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable.

  Linda Seger

  Fear, Next, Areas

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• I find celebrity really scary.

  Kate Ashfield

  Really Scary

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• People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

  Katie Chang

  People, Attention, Littles

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