“ I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people! ”
- John Glover- Copy
- 1K
“ Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss. ”
- Josh Hartnett- Copy
- 652
“ When I met Genet I could not conceive of him as the author of his plays. He looks like a terrified baby. ”
- Jan Kott- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a little old to be on a kiddy ride. Absolutely terrified. Thought I was going to die. ”
- Rachael Leigh- Copy
- 2.9K
“ It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. ”
- Maya Lin- Copy
- 46
“ I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person. ”
- Stevie Nicks- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis. ”
- Andy Gibb- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There was nothing there. No strength. I was petrified. I was scared. This was my livelihood. ”
- Rod Stewart- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. ”
- Newt Gingrich- Copy
- 1.7K
“ My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. ”
- John Lennon- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I am desperate and vulnerable… I am always terrified… Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome. ”
- Faye Dunaway- Copy
- 1K
“ An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. ”
- Louise Bourgeois- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set. ”
- Jennifer Love Hewitt- Copy
- 1.5K
“ In order to allow ourselves to be creative, we have to relinquish control and overcome fear. Why? Because real creativity is life-altering. It threatens the status quo; it makes us see things differently. It brings about change, and we are terrified of change… we live in a wild universe — a universe in which the truth is frightening… ”
- Madeleine L’Engle- Copy
- 409
“ Because she was terrorized. I mean she felt like committing suicide within three hours. She was actually considering whether to throw herself out of the 10th floor window into the Pentagon Mall below. She was intimidated. ”
- Andrew Morton- Copy
- 208
“ Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc. ”
- James Cameron- Copy
- 3.4K
“ People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them. ”
- James Caan- Copy
- 2.1K
“ While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful. ”
- Conrad Black- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A little girl of seventeen in a mental hospital told me she was terrified because the Atom Bomb was inside her. That is a delusion. The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality' than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed. ”
- Ronnie D. Laing- Copy
- 1.2K
“ They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
- 623
“ If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it. ”
- Alan W. Watts- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people! ”
- John Glover- Copy
- 222
“ Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss. ”
- Josh Hartnett- Copy
- 243
“ When I met Genet I could not conceive of him as the author of his plays. He looks like a terrified baby. ”
- Jan Kott- Copy
- 983
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