Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be...
Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gig...
My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me v...
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with tr...
I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.
Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.
