fear tolerance Quotes

Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.

I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life, don't have the stomach for it because I spend so much time in it.

People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

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

I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I've actually done that.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

I'm really not afraid of spooky things. When I have to look really frightened, I concentrate on scary things like losing my kittens or something like that.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

I've never understood the appeal of feeling really scared. I know that people do find it really thrilling. For me, artistically, it needs to be worth the effort of me feeling uncomfortable watching it.

I am not a big horror freak. I'm a bit of a scaredy-cat in general. I can't handle scary movies unless I am at home with the lights on and the doors locked or it is in the morning.

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to. So despite 'Poltergeist' being a horror movie, I convinced my parents to let me see it. It was terrifying. I guess this says a lot about me as a six-year-old, because I loved it.

Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.