Startle Response Quotes

When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.

I hate jump scares. I really hate them. I think there's nothing special about being able to startle someone - that's an involuntary reflex, and it makes people laugh.

The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

The eye is easily frightened.

I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

I can't watch horror films because I am easily scared.

I personally cannot watch horror films: I am a scaredy cat and scare incredibly easily.

The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em.

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days.

If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.

Anytime anybody jumps out at me, I scream.

Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light

I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.