Fear Experience Quotes

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.

You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

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

Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.

I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

I jumped off a 30ft diving board for a dare once and it wasn't fun.

I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.

I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing.

When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it's one of the most frightening sounds you'll ever hear.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

Kids love to be scared - there's way to do it right, and ways to do it wrong.

Most of us are facing big changes in our lives. But, in our more evolved moments, I think we can all agree that fear-based worries are a waste of time and only create the experiences we are trying to avoid.

I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5.

I know a lot about fear in itself, and lived with fear a lot. Lived with anxiety a lot, lived with the things that - most human beings, at some stage in their lives, are going to live with these feelings.

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.

I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.