Matt Berry Quotes

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Write about what you're afraid of.

Fear is the fatal killer of desire.

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

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

We all have fears! Don't lie! We all have fears.

The fear of losing motivates me, and that's it.

Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.