Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
F. Murray Abraham

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
Jacqueline McKenzie

That's what it means to be a veteran; to be scared all the time.
Gil Doud

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
John Foster Dulles

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
Jackie Chan

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
Kirsten Dunst

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.
Hunter Tylo

The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
Larry Williams

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.
Charlotte Ross

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
Trip Hawkins

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.
Paul Kagame

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean King

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
Abu Bakar Bashir

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
Betty Carter

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
David Foster Wallace

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.
Ashley Scott

We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma. It's actually scared me quite a bit.
Michael Todd