With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.
My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term...
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.
What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.
