There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.
I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.
I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
I have built my organization upon fear.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to delive...
I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked...
Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
