Jello Biafra Quotes

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead.

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

When guys get competitive and get under each other's skin, it brings you out more. Some people fold.

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

Bullies are just frightened people.

Auditioning is the worst.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

I left Nixon, feeling ... like a very small creature, skirting the shadows of encircling powers that would not hesitate to crush me as impersonally as a steam roller crushes a bug.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you at night.

I’m going to be beaten and unless some change takes place, badly beaten.