Best Frightened Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I made mistakes like working with producers who did not complete their film, producers who did not market their films well and those who were frightened to spend money on promoting a film.”

“I think it's tough making a horror movie. I was in 'Halloween' and that's a horror movie, but my character only spends about 13 seconds being frightened.”

“I was 7 or 8, and my parents gave me a rod and reel as a way to get me out of the house. My first fish was a roach fish, and I remember being frightened to touch it. It was wriggling and cold blooded, but it was magical.”

“I'm frightened of the dark.”

“I've always been frightened of turning thirty.”

“I'm not frightened of death.”

“I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.”

“I didn't know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I'd be a stage actress. I always knew money would be tough, but that never frightened me.”

“I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.”

“There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.”

“I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.”

“We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.”

“I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.”

“I'm frightened of interviews.”

“I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.”

“I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.”

“I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.”

“It's like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it, nine times out of then I'll say yes imminently because then I can worry after I've said yes!”

“I feel that Indian women are too frightened. They all say, 'I can't do this, I can't do that.' Worse, their families don't support them.”

“No, I've never been frightened before a fight.”

“I don't have it in my personality to be frightened of things.”

“The thing that really interests me is characters facing challenges that are emblematic of the things they are most frightened of about themselves.”

“I don't vacation on the water. I'm a pale-skinned redhead; I get sunburned out there. I'm a little frightened of the ocean, in fact. But I just know there's great drama out there.”

“Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies.”

“I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.”

“When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.”

“I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.”

“My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.”

“I think the media's a little frightened of women.”

“Better be killed than frightened to death.”

“I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.”

“I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.”

“If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me.”

“I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.”

“If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.”

“I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.”

“I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.”

“Without our natural soundscape, we are making ourselves tired, stressed, and frightened all at the same time.”

“At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me.”

“If you get asked to play a part that makes you feel frightened, then you have to do it. 'Medea' is the opportunity of a lifetime.”

“I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.”

“If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.”

“As a kid I remember being frightened all of the time, and kind of sad. I was certainly troubled. But a lot of people were, y'know? I don't really know how to measure my trouble against somebody else's.”

“I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.”

“I hate horror movies. I get really scared, and I don't want to be scared. I don't know why, but I'm one of those people who gets frightened and can't go to sleep.”

“One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy who looked at my face and was like, 'Are you Felix?' I looked very different then. I was like, 'Yah... Oh, yah!' I was stunned and slightly frightened.”

“I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.”

“Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”

“Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.”

“I used to be very frightened of failure.”

“Actors are frightened little children.”

“I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.”

“If you are not frightened, you are not original.”

“People are frightened of the unknown.”

“Now when I step onstage, I have this hour when I can just be completely myself, just a massive ball of energy. Sometimes I get so lost in the performance, people look a little frightened - but that's a good thing.”

“Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.”

“I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.”

“It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.”

“I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm frightened of synagogue to this day.”

“We are all frightened now. No one says anything public without looking over their shoulder and wondering, Have I said something wrong? Am I going to get in trouble?”

“Performance was a shock to me. The first time I remember feeling I could do it was during the making of my first video, 'Fun for Me.' I couldn't sleep the night before the shoot, I was so frightened. I had to play a ghost and a piece of merchandise in a shop window, and I had no idea whether I was going to be able to pull it off.”

“I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.”

“I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.”

“Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.”

“For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.”

“And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'”

“I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.”

“I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.”

“It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.”

“Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.”

“When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.”

“But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.”

“When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.”

“When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.”

“I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.”

“The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.”

“If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.”

“Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.”

“At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies.”

“You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.”

“We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.”

“I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.”

“Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.”

“I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown straight into doing interviews. Most people have build-up. I had none.”

“Frightened is the natural state for all men.”

“You can get the best out of people if they're happy and not worried or not frightened that they're going to make a mistake.”

“There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.”

“We're frightened of what makes us different.”

“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

“I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.”

“Wars are begun by frightened men.”

“I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.”

“If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.”

“I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.”

“This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.”

“I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.”