Tucker Max Quotes

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

I have never dated. I have no experience. It's terrible, and I'm scared to death of it, too, at the same time.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

You can't be afraid of rejection. That was one of my problems when I was approaching girls: I was always afraid of what they were going to say to me.

We all have fears! Don't lie! We all have fears.

I've never been good at playing live in front of people.

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.