Scary Quotes

• My family is big, complicated, and beautiful - and keeps me smiling and whole. It's so important to have family, whether it's biological family, good friends, foster families, or a group of aunties who are raising you. The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Time
  • Long
  • Scary

• Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Scary
  • Innovation
  • Fund

• I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

  

  James Wan
  • Imagination
  • Scary

• For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.

  

  Ehren Kruger
  • Movie
  • Scary
  • Psychology

• 'Sharp Objects' was scary, unknown territory for me. I wouldn't pick this kind of material to direct if you just gave me the book. Amy Adams was the force that drove me in.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Book
  • Scary
  • Unknown

• I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Remember
  • Police
  • Scary

• I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.

  

  David Naughton
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.

  

  Pippa Middleton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Black
  • Scary

• Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Life
  • Up
  • Scary

• I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • People
  • Black
  • Energy

• People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Holocaust

• Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Gay
  • Scary

• It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • World
  • Culture
  • Fear

• You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • See
  • Lights

• I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.

  

  Carole Bouquet
  • Time
  • School
  • Friends

• Writing is inherently scary.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Writing
  • Scary

• I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

  

  Linda Cardellini
  • Daughter
  • Scary
  • Pregnancy

• I think a lot of us have some form of body dysmorphia... You're looking in the mirror, and you're kind of disassociated in some way. I think a good reminder is to actually, physically touch yourself. 'Ah, okay, this is what my arm feels like. It's not what I'm mutating in my head. I'm not some sort of scary monster.'

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Good
  • Mirror
  • Monster

• Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.

  

  Agnes Bruckner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Imagination
  • Scary
  • Own

• When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • People
  • Guy
  • Game

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