Danny Pintauro Quotes

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

None of my friends act any differently towards me, which is great. I was scared about that, so scared about that.

In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

Fear is the mind-killer.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells. “Hello, gorgeous.” She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. “Hey, handsome.

As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)