The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.
It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.
[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.
What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules. . . . We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
New Year's Eve always terrifies me.
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?
Traffic terrifies me.
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.
If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.