McG Quotes

I have loved 'Countdown' for years. I always used to watch it when I got home from school. To be actually on the programme is a big challenge.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

Listen to your fear but don't obey it.

The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.

Do something today you've been afraid to do. A decision based on fear is the wrong decision.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

When you get that opportunity to be honest and open with somebody, for the first time, and share things about yourself that you haven't been able to share before, that you might be scared of or ashamed about, that's really exhilarating, and I think that's something that people will really identify with.

Fear aint in the heart of me, i learned just do it, you get courage from your fears right after you go through it.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

I am constantly pushing myself and my own expectations and have always found that I've always come out better for it. Fear is human nature, but turning fear into opportunity is what will make a difference. I would much rather look back at my life saying "I can't believe I did that," than, "What if I had done that?"

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

Whenever I do overcome my inherent fear, it turns out well.

People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.