John Dryden Quotes

Fear is natural. Be with it.

A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

As you look at your fears head-on, you'll begin to see how much of what you fear is just False Evidence Appearing Real. When you act on this false evidence, you create chaos in your life.

If I'm afraid of something, I'll deal with it and get past it.

Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.

She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling.