Scary Quotes - Page 34

• To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Ocean, Creative, Surfing

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• I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

  Stephen Mangan

  Teacher, School, Juniors

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• Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

  Emilie Autumn

  Mean, Fighting, Winning

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• Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Thinking, Lines, Horror

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• It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

  Francesca Lia Block

  World, Messages, Enough

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• People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary, it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

  Toni Collette

  People, Want, Able

  "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Successful, Opportunity

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• War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, War, Missing

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• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  Larry Kramer

  Writing, Views, Seductive

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• We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

  Meg Cabot

  Growing Up, First Love, Firsts

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• In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, America, Feminist

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Years, Play

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• I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

  Alexa Chung

  Might, Interviews, Jagger

  "Interview: Alexa Chung covers our spring fashion issue". Interview with Rachel LeWinter, www.timeout.com. March 11, 2013.

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• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Sorry, Blessed, Optimistic

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• I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Doctors, Firsts

  "God save McQueen" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

  Sylvia Browne

  Thinking, Psychics, Would Be

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• When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

  Grace Jones

  Childhood, Bully, Males

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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