Samantha Bond Quotes

I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.

Growing up, I used to think I'd never get on a plane - I was terrified. But when I joined Mis-Teeq, being on a plane was my job. I used to scream on flights. Full-on screams.

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

I hate flying. The first time I flew with my wife, Najat, was the first time I'd ever flown in my life, and that was just a short flight to Turkey. I spent the whole time with my shirt pulled over my head. Then I got used to it.

We've all been in that metaphoric place, having to scream out what you want in the face of your fears.

I don't like flying... it's a fear of mine.