The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.
We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.
...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man...
[being led away in handcuffs by police] Jim Cunningham: You are a fear prisoner. Yes, you are a product of fear.
Mrs Baylock: Have no fear, little one... I am here to protect thee.
Rosa: Fear is a powerful weapon. Fear doesn't give you the power to decide.
Gené: Fear is a powerful weapon. Fear doesn't give you the power to decide.
True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things
Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.
America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.
Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear it's a cat.
Stay," he said abruptly. "Stay, feed me. Read to me, if you like. Do not talk to me of death. Do not offer me your fear. I have fear of my own to drive me, and if my own fear is not strong enough to keep me from my duty, yours will only grieve me, gi...
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like h...
If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of school...
(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman bow herself to me. If not the fear of her own death, then fear for someone else, a husband or a child. How can I bend this woman to my w...