Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

What an incredible drug fear is.

I get startled really easily, so I hate horror films. I have to close my eyes when I think something is going to make me jump, because I just scream.

I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.

For like four or five months of my life I was too scared to like, move around and reach out for things because I was worried that I'd my hands would run into glass, like I could reach up and if I reached up and knocked on the air it would make a noise. I couldn't look at the sky because I was worried that I see a crack.

There is this thing called catastrophic thinking - you start thinking that something catastrophic is going to happen. I get on a plane and I think it's going to crash, I just know it's going to crash, so you're petrified.

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.

I do have a fear of heights.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.