Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

I think it's good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don't have any need for guts.

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable.

I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.

The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

To sit in my concert and be uncomfortable is brave. Because you could always leave, you know?

I still get scared every time I go out. I get scared taking off; I get scared on the wave, falling, everything. But, you know, growing up with it, I guess you're a little more comfortable.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.