Hayden Panettiere Quotes

Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

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.

One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

I've never been burgled. I don't quite know what I would do if it was the dead of night and there was someone in the house, and my kids were asleep upstairs.

It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.

I never thought I'd ever get stabbed in my life. The fact that it happened twice within, like, a two-month period is pretty insane.

An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.

Stop fearing being attacked.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

I was mugged when I was 12. I had a portable radio, and I ran into this building and these two guys came in and hit me, busted me up and took the radio. After that I was very paranoid and I started taking kung fu and karate. But I didn't want to fight.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.

Dad never demonstrated any fear, although my sisters and I lived in terror he’d be killed by an assassin.