Mandy Harvey Quotes

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

Multimedia scares me off.

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

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

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

Unless I am gravely mistaken, I am the only reporter in this city, teeming with reporters, who goes to bed every night praying that he is dead wrong. I see danger—fearful danger—hanging over this country that I love. I keep hoping it is a mirage, in which case I shall indeed be dead wrong.

If you see anything scary on television, you can turn it off.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.

The scariest thing is to go into a new situation for myself, and yet I have a job where I do that every few months, meet a hundred new people, and then have to perform in a very highly pressurized environment.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.