Barry Levinson Quotes

I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of Kings.

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.

You're scared of what you can't control

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn't like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can't hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

While there's life, there's fear.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

Adults under threat feel like children.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.