I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well I'm not a good terrified person.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.