Scare Quotes - Page 8

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

What gets yme excited about a project and character is the director, the script, who's involved in the movie, and the character. Those are pretty much the essentials. If it's something different, if it scares me, in a way, if it will stretch me or push me into certain places that I haven't been to, then I like that. If you're just trying to talk yourself into it, then it's probably not for you. It's hard to be selective.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day

I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

Look, if anyone is scared, I got your back.

And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [...] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.

As soon as I said to myself, "Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor," it made me so free to do anything. It made me free to not rush, to not be scared of things and say, "Oh, I have no time," or, "I'm not going to make this or that."

Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

When I am scared of something, I run towards it, instead of away from it.

Don't become something just because someone else wants you to or because it's easy; you won't be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the s-t out of you.

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears.

I feel very inspired right now because I know there are a lot of people out there who are really scared but I feel this great sense of togetherness and people coming together and saying, "I got your back."

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

I've always been an admirer of women who walk the line of being very feminine and powerful at the same time. That has always been my archetype because too many powerful women, I fend intimidating and frightening, and I never want to scare anybody. I want to be warm and cuddly and yet, powerful at the same time.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.