Fear quotes

“- Kid: Santa?
- Jack Skellington: Merry Christmas! And what is your name?
- Kid: Uh... uh...
- Jack Skellington: That's all right. I have a present for you, anyway. There ya go, sonny! Ho ho ho! Heeheehee!
[slips out the chimney]
- Mother: And what did Santa bring you, honey?
[kid shows parents his present: a shrunken head; parents scream]”
Danny Elfman - Jack Skellington

“There's nothing to fear. Look. No blood, no decay. Just a few stitches.”

Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“That guy's too stupid to be scared. He's a primitive.”

Kevin Conway - Stitch

“- Chili Palmer: Harry Zimm.
- Harry Zimm: Jesus Christ!
- Chili Palmer: How you doing? I'm Chili Palmer.
- Harry Zimm: Jesus, if I have a heart attack, I hope you know what to do.”

John Travolta - Chili Palmer
Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm

“- William of Baskerville: What is so alarming about laughter?
- Jorge de Burgos: Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith, because without fear of the Devil there is no more need of God.”
Sir Sean Connery - William von Baskerville
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. - Jorge de Burgos

“I know what this is about, you're a woman and you're afraid of becoming obsolete. You're at an age when men are starting to notice younger girls and it's freaking you out.”

Jon Favreau - Adam Levy

“- Molly: Want to know how people really die, in their sleep? First, they go to bed. Then, about two in the morning, they go... Ahhh! Oh! Get a doct...
- Fumes: I ain't never goin' to sleep again!”
Lesley Ann Warren - Molly
Teddy Wilson - Fumes

“- Engywook: Next is the Magic Mirror Gate. Atreyu has to face his true self.
- Falkor: So what? That won't be too hard for him.
- Engywook: Oh, that's what everyone thinks! But kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men discover that they are really cowards! Confronted by their true selves, most men run away screaming!”
Sydney Bromley - Engywook
Alan Oppenheimer - Falkor

“- Lane Mayer: I have great fear of tools. I once made a birdhouse in woodshop and the fair housing committee condemned it. I can't.
- Monique Junot: I cannot do it is your middle name.”
John Cusack - Lane Myer
Diane Frankin - Monique Junot

- Lunch Lady: Have some more "Sloppy Joes". I made 'em extra sloppy for yous. I know how yous kids like 'em sloppy.
- Billy Madison: Lady, you're scaring us.
Joyce Gordon - Lunch Lady
Adam Sandler - Billy Madison

“A stick-up guy I used to know a long time ago told me that the most important thing is to put fear into everybody right away. So when we get in there, let me do all the talking.”

George Burns - Joe

“- Doctor Martha Livingston: Agnes, how do you feel about babies?
- Sister Agnes: Oh, they frighten me; I'm afraid I'll drop them. They have a soft spot on their heads, and if you drop them so they land on their heads, they become stupid. I was dropped on my head; that's why I don't understand things.
- Doctor Martha Livingston: Like what?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Seymour Fonda - Doctor Martha Livingston
Meg Tilly - Sister Agnes

No one can escape the fear of death. It is, as William James put it, "the worm at the core", and try as we may to forget or ignore our own mortality, the skull will grin in at the banquet.
David Paymer - Dr. Ernest Delbanco

“I'd have got a swell picture of a charging rhino, but the cameraman got scared. The darn fool, I was right there with a rifle! Seems he didn't trust me to get the rhino before it got him. I haven't fooled with a cameraman since; I do it myself.”

Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham

“Can you look destiny in the eye without flinching?”
Tracey Ellis - Sybil

“- George Halley: You scared?
- Lloyd Hart: Yes I am.
- George Halley: No heart, huh?
- Lloyd Hart: At least I haven't got any heart for this. I thought this business would be over with before I got here.”

Humphrey Bogart - George Hally
Jeffrey Lynn - Lloyd Hart

“- Norma: Oh. Miss Tate. I didn't mean to make you jump. It's Halloween. I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare.
- Laurie Strode: I've had my share.”
Janet Leigh - Norma
Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode

- Private Frost: Man, I'm telling you, I got a bad feeling about this drop.
- Private Crowe: You always say that, Frost. You always say, "I got a bad feeling about this drop".
- Private Frost: Okay, okay. When we get back without you, I'll call your folks.
Ricco Ross - Private Frost
Tip Tipping - Private Crowe

“- Lytton Strachey: Any luck with the famous Carrington conundrum?
- Mark Gertler: The same ignorance. Fear and Ignorance. Now its been going on for four years and I'm at my wits end.
- Lytton Strachey: Well, it's no use asking my opinion. I'm afraid when it comes to a creature with a cunt, I'm always infinitely désorienté.”

Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Rufus Sewell - Mark Gertler

“- Killer: Do you like scary movies?
- Screw: What do you mean? Like Spike Lee movies?
- Killer: Look, lay off the Spikester! He's keeping it real!”
Chris Palermo - Killer
Aimee Graham - Screw

“- Gramma-Jess: Diane, you've got to go on unafraid in this life. You don't want to instil fear into that child who's truly gifted, and filled with knowledge.
- Diane: I don't want her to be gifted!”

Geraldine Fitzgerald - Gramma-Jess
JoBeth Williams - Diane Freeling

“Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”

David Prowse - Darth Vader

“- Bobby Ciaro: He wants to know what you're scared of.
- Jimmy Hoffa: Tell him it's none of his fucking business.”
Danny DeVito - Bobby Ciaro
Jack Nicholson - James R. Hoffa

“- Anne Strieber: You were frightened by a Halloween mask?
- Whitley Strieber: Yes.
- Anne Strieber: A Halloween mask frightened you?
- Whitley Strieber: Is there an echo? Yes.”
Lindsay Crouse - Anne Strieber
Christopher Walken - Whitley Strieber

“- 1st Elder: Any attempt by you to create a climate of fear and panic among the populace must be deemed by us an act of insurrection.
- Jor-El: You would accuse me of insurrection? Has it now become a crime to cherish life?
- 1st Elder: You would be banished to endless imprisonment in the Phantom Zone, the eternal void which you yourself...” (continue)(continue reading)

Trevor Howard - 1st Elder
Marlon Brando - Jor-El