Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

Most of our models have just walked in off the streets, although I also find them on countless trips to Europe - particularly Scandinavia. I operate by instinct. It's a process I cannot explain, but the prettiest girl on the block is not always the best model.

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?" No, I'm just opportunistic." I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great.

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

My God. What's happened?

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.