Audra McDonald Quotes

I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don't do some things that really terrify you, I don't think they're worth doing.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.

If you need to know in advance that everything will 'work out' before you jump in, you'll never jump into anything.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

If I ever feel that this is dangerous or I'm scared of it, then that probably draws me more towards it.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

I didn't really because I know myself well enough to know that if I actually sit down and think about sort of I can spook myself out like anyone, you know? It's sort of like you've got to sort of jump out of the airplane when you're skydiving. If you spend 20 minutes sitting on the lip you probably won't do it.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

You won't take risk without courage.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Fear guides more than gratitude.

It's a very, very exciting time, but you can't help thinking or not quite knowing how it's seen from the outside. You're constantly in a state of terror or regret, not quite knowing how things are going to pan out, or whether you've made the right decisions. But, maybe that's just what it's like. Maybe that's just the life of it.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.