Morena Baccarin Quotes

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

There's so much to be afraid of.

I never think I'm safe. I always live in fear I will lose.

And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

While there's life, there's fear.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

I get a little scared sometimes. A lot of things scare me.

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

The unknown is very scary.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.