My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.