Amy Ryan Quotes

I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don't do some things that really terrify you, I don't think they're worth doing.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

If it scares me, it means I'm supposed to do it.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I'm actually excited by things. And if things don't work out, you know, by the time you've hit your thirties, you've had your fair share of disappointments.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

I may sound a bit crazy, but I get really excited with all the enormous hard work that I put myself through every day.

I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me!

Sometimes being scared of something can be good because it can give you strength. A great example for me would be acting in English! Basically, whenever I'm scared of a project, I know it's worth it.

I'm at my most fulfilled challenging myself with something that scares me.

To move past fear is a cliche.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I like to do something I fear.

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.