Phyllida Lloyd Quotes

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I really have no fear.

I think I'm a pretty brave girl, but I wouldn't say I'm fearless.

Fear is not one of my attributes.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

No, I was never afraid.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I want to be fearless.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

No human is completely fearless.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.