Frightened Quotes - Page 4

• Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

  Jane Campion

  Home, Trying, Directors

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 117, 2009.

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• I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Ill

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Used, Feels

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• Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Sometimes, Feels, Meaningless Life

  "The Mixed-Up Life of Shia LaBeouf" by Dotson Rader, parade.com. June 14, 2009.

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• I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.

  Elmore Leonard

  Pay, Bills, Dangerous

  "This much I know: Elmore Leonard". Interview with John O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Party, Character

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Movie, Stars, Trying

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.70, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

  Matt Taibbi

  Successful, Political, Watches

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• I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  "I'm a horrible bully" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, School, Sunday

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

  Amy Winehouse

  Vulnerable, Appearing

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• When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

  Robert Winston

  Disappointment, Mirrors, Self

  "What I See in the Mirror: Robert Winston". www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

  Helen McCrory

  Thinking, Change Is Good, Teach

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

  Helen McCrory

  Unhappy, Bloody, Exhausting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Order, Effort

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• Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Swim, Cautious

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Morning, Children, Sound

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.

  Peter Weiss

  War, Lying, Military

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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• I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It is closer than I’ll ever get to you for real. I felt like I was looking at a captured animal at a safe distance. If you knew I was doing this, you would feel sickened and frightened. That’s why you’ll never know. Years will go by and you’ll never know. I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Hate, Real

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• Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Crazy, Eye

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

  Barbra Streisand

  Courage, Fear, Bits

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• All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Heart, Mouths, Flesh

  Song: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

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• Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

  Isabel Allende

  Character, Grandmother, Care

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

  Jim Harrison

  Government, Years, People

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Legends of the Fall”, p.109, Atlantic Books

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