Fear quotes

“All who gain power are afraid to lose it.”
Ian McDiarmid - Supreme Chancellor Palpatine

- Eleanor "Nell" Vance: Have you ever kept something for yourself because you were afraid?
- Theo: All the time.
Lili Taylor - Nell
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Theo

“You don't need to study scaring, you just do it.”
John Goodman - Sullivan

“Common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Don't be afraid of death, Winnie. Be afraid of the unlived life.”
William Hurt - Angus Tuck

“You don't wanna do this?”

Isabel Lucas - Lena Harper

“I just killed two people. I just took a spoon and pushed it through him. I swear to god I'm going to piss my pants Phoebe, I swear to god I'm going to piss my pants.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Mike Howell

- Dave Kujan: Do you believe in him, Verbal?
- Verbal: Keaton always said "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him". Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.

Chazz Palminteri - Dave Kujan
Kevin Spacey - Verbal

“- Winnie Foster: I can't swim.
- Jesse Tuck: You're joshing me!
- Winnie Foster: I wish I were.
- Jesse Tuck: So, you're afraid you'll drown, right? Swallow too much water, sink to the bottom and die!
- Winnie: Thank you for putting it so vividly, and yes, considering I'd sink like a rock, drowning is a fair concern!”
Alexis Bledel - Winnie Foster
Jonathan Jackson - Jesse Tuck

“Will you calm down? You're not going to let a little near-death experience ruin your mood, are you?”
Woody Allen - Z

“I heard a knock at the door. There was an old lady. They were headed to my dads workshop. I could hear chanting, they were wearing robes. There was a black mask. I think they were following me.”
Ethan Hawke - Angela Grey

“Bear... bear... Big Bear... big bear chase meeeeeeee...!”
John Candy - Chet Ripley

“- Joy: C'mon! Think positive!
- Sadness: Okay...
- Sadness: ... I'm positive that you'll get lost in there!”

Amy Poehler - Joy
Phyllis Smith - Sadness

“- Ray: Abby, I meant it, when I called.
- Abby: I love you too.
- Ray: You're scared.”
John Getz - Ray
Frances McDormand - Abby

“Are you a God-fearing man? That is such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto

“- Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
- Paul Varjak: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
- Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly
George Peppard - Paul Varjak

“- Eddie Jessup: I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.
- Emily Jessup: We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We write poems...”

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup
Blair Brown - Emily Jessup

“Do you want to know the problem with places like this? With religion, in general? It's never known how to convey the anatomy of horror. Religion seeks discipline through fear... yet doesn't understand the true nature of creation. No one's ever believed it enough to make it real.”

Jürgen Prochnow - Sutter Cane

“- Sir William Cecil: Forgive me, Madam, but you are only a woman...
- Elizabeth I: I may be a woman but if I choose I have the heart of a man! I am my father's daughter. I am not afraid of anything.”
Richard Attenborough - Sir William Cecil
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“- Jamie Ashen: Who would've dug up a dummy and sent it to me?
- Henry Walker: I don't know! No one from this town dares speak Mary Shaw's name, let alone go near her grave. They know she won't stop killing, until the screaming does!”
Ryan Kwanten - Jamie Ashen
Michael Fairman - Henry Walker

“- Pedro Cerrano: Bats, they are sick. I cannot hit curveball. Straightball I hit it very much. Curveball, bats are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from bats. I offer him cigar, rum. He will come.
- Eddie Harris: You know you might think about taking Jesus Christ as your savior instead of fooling around with all this stuff.
- Roger Dorn:...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dennis Haysbert - Pedro Cerrano
Chelcie Ross - Eddie Harris
Corbin Bernsen - Roger Dorn

“I've been watching you all night, and you've been drinking like a fish. Trying to get your courage up? We're only bringing in a shipment of booze, it's got so you're even scared to do that. Maybe you just better stay home tonight, with Eve.”

James Woods - Max

“She can do the same thing I did. It should be easier for her, she is a girl. Any guy would be with you. Just sleep with someone else and tell him to do the same thing. Maybe it will never come back.”

Jake Weary - Hugh

“You're talking to a 72 year-old man with high cholesterol, eating a bacon and cheddar omelet with extra cheddar. Do I look like I'm afraid of death?”
Scott Flick - Diner Regular

“- Jake: Candyman will get me.
- Helen Lyle: Candyman isn't real. He's just a story. You know, like Dracula. Or... Or Frankenstein. A bad man took his name so that he could scare us. But now that's he's locked up everything's going to be okay.”
DeJuan Guy - Jake
Virginia Madsen - Helen Lyle