Deepak Chopra Quotes

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.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

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.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

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.

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.

Actors are frightened little children.

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.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

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

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

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.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

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

I'm afraid to do theater now.

The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Public speaking is the number-one fear... even over death!

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?

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.