James Wan Quotes

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

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• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Kind

• I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Thought
  • Dying
  • Cancer

• It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • True
  • Attention
  • Dreams

• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Poverty
  • Scary
  • India

• Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Place

• There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Focus
  • Scary
  • Celebrity

• That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Real
  • Water
  • Scary

• I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Happy
  • Scary
  • Living

• I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Scary

• When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Family
  • Home
  • Movie

• I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Scary

• Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • She
  • Model
  • Beauty

• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • President
  • Scary
  • Dumb

• Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Imagination
  • Scary
  • Own

• Sometimes people just show up, which is kind of scary. And then you are like, 'Okay guy... got to leave'.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • People
  • Scary

• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creativity

• Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I had a fear of being alone.

  

  Gloria Gaynor
  • Fear
  • Alone

• They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.

  

  James Denton
  • Pretty

• If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

  

  James Wan
  • Scary