Rachel McAdams Quotes

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

Travelling fills me with dread.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.

I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.

I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.

I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.

I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

I was very scared of heights and water.

I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.