Fear quotes

The only plane in Nootsak belonged to a part-time bush pilot, gambler, and real estate tycoon named Rosie Little. While we were negotiating our deal, he introduced me to this drink that he'd invented. Known locally as "Moose Juice", it consisted of equal parts Moose Brand Beer and ethyl alcohol. Before I knew it, my old fear of flying evaporated... (continue)(continue reading)
Charles Martin Smith - Tyler

“I don't dance very well when my partner has a gun in his hand.”
Mary Steenburgen - Clara Clayton

“- Deirdre: You're scared!
- Sam: Of course I'm scared! You think I'm reluctant because I'm happy?”
Natascha McElhone - Deirdre
Robert De Niro - Sam

“That's funny. I have that too. My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.”

Woody Allen - David Dobel

“- Cliff Buxton: I was more scared than excited.
- Glenn Latham: I don't think that's odd. I feel like that all the time.”

Sam Neill - Cliff Buxton
Tom Long - Glenn Latham

“- Sunhill: Well, I only have just one question. How scared are you right now?
- Capt. Bransford: I'm sorry, Miss Sunhill. Is it possible that you're in the wrong place?
- Sunhill: Your heart's racing a little faster, there's a little ball in your throat, it's sticky under the arms.
- Capt. Bransford: Okay, I think that's enough.
- Sunhill: You...” (continue)(continue reading)

Madeleine Stowe - Sara Sunhill
Brad Beyer - Bransford

“- Claire Standish: You know why guys like you knock everything?
- John Bender: Oh, this should be stunning.
- Claire Standish: It's because you're afraid.”
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Judd Nelson - John Bender

“- Vincent Cappadora - Age 16: You were just lying there not scared or anything...
- Sam Karras: I know that's what I remembered, that I wasn't scared, because I knew you'd come and find me.”
Jonathan Jackson - Vincent Cappadora - Age 16
Ryan Merriman - Sam Karras

“- Axel: Lemme ask you a question: how come I never see you eat?
- Nick: I like to starve myself: it keeps the fear up.”
Chuck Aspegren - Axel
Christopher Walken - Nick

“I don't know which frightens me more, that the children are lying or that they are telling the truth.”
Phoebe Nicholls - Polly Wright

“We're all scared, and why shouldn't we be? What do you think they're using in this war, water pistols?”

James Cagney - Eddie Bartlett

“Merkel's boys. They ship out tomorrow, too. Scared fuckers. They need sex as much as the infantry needs alcohol.”
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte

“I really don't mind dying.”
Elizabeth Spriggs - Mrs. Roberts

“- Jake: I ain't scared of nobody but you're crazy walking in here on your own. It ain't safe around here.
- Helen Lyle: Yeah, I know. But I don't scare too easy either, Jake.”
DeJuan Guy - Jake
Virginia Madsen - Helen Lyle

“- Tad: Death shrouds.
- Danny O'Shea: They've got your names on the back.
- Jake Berman: So the guys at the morgue can identify the bodies.”

Danny Pritchett - Tad Simpson
Rick Moranis - Danny O'Shea
Todd Bosley - Jake Berman

“You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don't you... why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to.”
Jodie Foster - Clarice Starling

“I wouldn't be afraid of death if I was you. I'd be more afraid of driving in rush hour traffic.”
Jessica Tandy - Ninny Threadgoode

“The media, the corporations, the politicians have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

When you meet danger, you never think of anything except how you will circumvent it. The word "failure" does not even exist for you, while I... I think always: "Suppose I fail", and then I'm frightened.

Walter Szurovy - Paul de Bursac

“- Picard: Don't panic!
- Anij: I've been shot at, thrown into the lake out of a ship that's come to abduct us - what's there to panic about?”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
Donna Murphy - Anij

“- Anne-Marie McCoy: They've all been here, you know? Newspapers, cops, case workers... they all want to know. I heard her screaming. I heard right through the walls. I dialed 911. Nobody came. Nobody came. Everybody scared. He could come right through these walls, you know? I'm scared. Scared for my child. They ain't never goin' to catch him.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Vanessa Williams - Anne-Marie McCoy
Virginia Madsen - Helen Lyle

“- Billy: I'm scared Poncho.
- Poncho: Bullshit. You ain't afraid of no man.
- Billy: There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die.”
Sonny Landham - Billy
Richard Chaves - Poncho

“I don't like your God. Your God scares me.”
Adam Sandler - Moses

“The story grows more and more charming, simpler too, all the time. You're both victims of fear. Mrs. Reed fears the past and you fear the present. Mrs. Reed has a very strong imagination and you have an equally strong conscience.”

Tom Conway - Dr. Louis Judd

“- Jerry Durrance: Are you afraid of getting burnt if you get too close to happiness?
- Charlotte Vale: No. I'm immune to happiness and therefore to burns.”
Paul Henreid - Jerry Durrance
Bette Davis - Charlotte Vale