Quotes About Being Scared

#1. 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.

Lana Parrilla

#2. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.

Uzoma Nnadi

#3. People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

Jason Blum

#4. Oh, honey, being scared but still doing the right thing is what being brave is all about.

Kerry Alan Denney

#5. It was about being scared shitless, knowing the source of your fears, understanding them, outsmarting them, and going forth to conquer them anyway. I

Kristen Ashley

#6. I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#7. I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

Alex Hirsch

#8. Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag.

Jon Michaelsen

#9. There is nothing wrong with being scared. It only means that something important is at stake.

Sarah Fine

#10. I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

Tananarive Due

#11. I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

Ozzy Osbourne

#12. And then I realized you were not rebellious but courageous. You know what that means?

It means being scared but doing it anyway.

Marilyn Hilton

#13. Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

John Connolly

#14. I don't know if i can," I said, looking up into Archer's eyes. "Honestly, Archer ... I'm tired of being scared, tired of loving you on one hand and hating you on the other.

J.L. McCoy

#15. When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Vanessa Hudgens

#16. So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

Arthur Hailey

#17. Everyone falls eventually," Piper told me. "You think it'll hurt. But it's falling with no bottom. You just keep going and going forever, just falling deeper and deeper. And once you stop being scared, it's kind of fun.

Kate Karyus Quinn

#18. You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

Harvey MacKay

#19. And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

Tahereh Mafi

#20. I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.

Claire Coffee

#21. I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#22. Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about,

Sandra Bullock

#23. But I love him like crazy, you know? And when you love someone like crazy, should you stand around being scared that something might not work out, or do you do something about it and take a chance?

Mary Calmes

#24. That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

Mira Grant

#25. You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

David Foster Wallace

#26. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

#27. Being scared is not always something to be scared of

Liz Bowen

#28. The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

Kirsten Dunst

#29. Being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to.

Jodi Picoult

#30. Fortunately, it turns out that being scared of yourself is a somewhat effective motivational technique.

Allie Brosh

#31. A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.

Ralph Wiley

#32. I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.

Mitt Romney

#33. I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

Caity Lotz

#34. The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Billie Jean King

#35. There's nothing wrong with being scared ... It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we're afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.

Kristin Hannah

#36. But fear lets us know we're alive. It tells me that you care about what happens between us because the mind doesn't waste time being scared about things that don't matter.

Cora Carmack

#37. Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it ... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.
-Carl Grimes

Robert Kirkman

#38. Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!

Mel Brooks

#39. 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.

Scott Foley

#40. I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

Bernie Sanders

#41. Confidence is being scared to death but getting the job done anyway.

Todd Stocker

#42. You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

Ali Hewson

#43. I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.

Will Smith

#44. Being afraid is part of living, Rory, just as much as being scared is part of being courageous. You can only be happy when you're brutally honest with yourself.

Winna Efendi

#45. Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

Kim Du-han

#46. Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Louis L'Amour

#47. But there's nothing wrong with being scared. I think everyone's a little scared. Even the government.

David Patneaude

#48. If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.

Colleen Houck

#49. Being scared to fail inspires creativity; heartbreak inspires creativity; being hurt by others inspires creativity; being lost inspires creativity. Your masterpiece isn't something that you will have made in the colorful, it is understood in the darkness. Use the anxiety within and let it serve you.

Forrest Curran

#50. I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Katie Featherston

#51. Being brave isn't the same as not being scared, though, it means going through with something even if it totally terrifies you.

Kara Taylor

#52. For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

Jena Malone

#53. I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.

Erica Bauermeister

#54. When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

Don Rickles

#55. 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.

Chuck Klosterman

#56. There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

Stephen Graham Jones

#57. I've always been the guy that loved being scared or loved having pressure on me, because I always wanted to prove myself wrong and always wanted to prove that I could do it.

Alex Pettyfer

#58. Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.

Alexa Von Tobel

#59. I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.

Olivia Munn

#60. Back in the present, these thoughts tormented Mark for at least another hour - and he knew if he dreamed it would only get worse. He was scared of being scared. He drifted off despite his efforts. Sleep came over him like cold, crashing waves.

James Dashner

#61. Maybe I should give up and go back the way I came. But I stay. I detest fear. I hate being scared. There is only one path to fearlessness. It's the one that leads into the mysterious center of the terror.

Peter Hoeg

#62. For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

Jason Blum

#63. So you've stopped thinking you're going to die?

Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.

Carsten Jensen

#64. Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

Art Garfunkel

#65. I could never understand people being scared of things they didn't know nothing about.

S.E. Hinton

#66. I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

Emma Caulfield

#67. My daddy always said being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

Susan Crandall

#68. The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#69. The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

Trip Hawkins

#70. Trees surrounded them from all sides, casting long inky shadows that would, at another time, have been scary. But there was no point in being scared of what might be lurking in the shadows when the biggest bad, of all big bads, was gazing at her intently.

Caroline Hanson

#71. Young Sam looked solemn for a moment and then said, I think I'll let Mr. Whistle do the being scared and then it won't bother me.

Terry Pratchett

#72. The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

Robin Ince

#73. I was tired. Tired of men, tired of moving, tired of being scared, tired of being confused. But who was I kissing? I'm not one to sit quietly, anywhere.

Deborah Rodriguez

#74. 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.

Camilla Lackberg

#75. Isn't that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?

Winna Efendi

#76. I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

Oscar Isaac

#77. 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.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#78. Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.

Tom Robbins

#79. Your instant reaction to being scared is to pull out a gun on someone? Damn girl, where are you from? Most girls I know squeal or some shit like that.

Abbi Glines

#80. Businessmen learn the way businessmen are supposed to be. Professors learn the way professors are supposed to be. Construction workers learn how construction workers are supposed to be. They spend their lives trying to be what they're supposed to be and being scared they aren't. Quiet desperation.

Robert B. Parker

#81. It's OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you're about to do something really, really brave.

Mandy Hale

#82. There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

Patrick Carman

#83. I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.

Dan Trachtenberg

#84. I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

Lana Parrilla

#85. You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up.

Fredrik Backman

#86. Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.

Derek Ridgers

#87. I had not said anything about what had happened the day before - about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.

Sharon Creech

#88. Being scared doesn't move you forward~ it only holds you back

Nina Montgomery

#89. You ever had the feeling the future's become the past while you were busy being scared?

Benjamin Johncock

#90. Being scared is practice for being scared.

Simon Holt

#91. When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

Sean Durkin

#92. Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.

Robin Sharma

#93. Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

Gemma Chan

#94. If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

Marissa Mayer

#95. Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

Sam Snead

#96. 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.

Desmond Tutu

#97. Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Alan Watts

#98. Your father used to say that being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to" Queen Maureen said "And he used to tell me he was scared all the time.

Jodi Picoult

#99. Sometimes being scared of something can be good because it can give you strength. A great example for me would be acting in English! Basically, whenever I'm scared of a project, I know it's worth it.

Stephanie Sigman

#100. I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.

Katie Chang