Paul Dano Quotes

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Anything you're not in control of you can't be that comfortable with.

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

There can be no security where there is fear.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

People want security in this insecure world.

When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us.

If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

They can't hurt you now.

I don't know who I am outside of someone who's just trying to be free and find safety for myself and for others.

A girl, whether in the industry or out of it, has to protect herself.

I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

If people don't feel safe, they're not going to have hope.

Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Here in my car, I feel safest of all, I can lock all the doors.

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.