“I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.”
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“I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.”
“Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.”
“I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.”
“When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.”
“Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.”
“What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.”
“I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.”
“Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.”
“I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.”
“Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.”
“I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.”
“You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.”
“There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.”
“President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.”
“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.”
“Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.”
“I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.”
“On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.”
“The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.”
“You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.”
“Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.”