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I wish I had the guts and talent to be a good comedian. I love the idea of it, yet I'm terrified of it. I'd also love to play music in front of people.

I was totally terrified and there was nothing I could do. It was my worst fear and it's so bizarre to have your worst fear suddenly come true.

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning,

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

The rebels have melted into the jungles and we are now helping the terrified passengers, including, women and children vacate the area.

When I say that to people, they repeat the question -- they have trouble believing it. What I wake up every morning terrified of and go to bed at night terrified of is not being able to do a good show. Once I give the show to the network and I'm proud of it, I really don't have that nervousness of 'Are people going to watch; are they not going to watch?' I can't control that.

We were terrified at the idea of producing two papers. But when The Times went fully compact, we looked at it very seriously. It took away that whole argument that you lose quality if you are a compact newspaper.

We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience is so uncomfortable.

To be honest, I was the world's worst vegetarian. You see - I didn't really like vegetables very much. I'd spent most of my childhood terrified of them - horrid bland mushy things. It's only as an adult I realise that part of the problem is my mother's cooking - she hates using salt and has a tendency to overboil things. Thanks, Mum.

Bob was terrified of dancing. He thought it was for sissies.

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better.

Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I'm geeky like that.

Blood was running down the side of his face and I was screaming his name but he didn't respond. ... I was terrified and thought I was going to die.

I started out doing triathlons because they terrified me! I'm a good swimmer, I learned to ride a bike in college, and I hate running. It seemed like something I could never do, so I decided, 'I'm gonna do it.'

I've been in scenes with my brother where I've been absolutely emotionally terrified to go somewhere. But because he's my brother, I feel safe.

I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but 'Doctor Who' is different. I've grown up with it. It's been part of my life since I was tiny, watching Jon Pertwee on a grainy black and white television in Cornwall and being terrified out of my mind.

These wolves are completely terrified of us. They need to be. If they have even a chance at survival in the wild they need to be afraid of humans.

The thought of going through the terrible twos with twins terrified me.

President Milosevic has once again made clear his attitude toward the truth -- he's terrified of it,

People are terrified about a lot of things that will never happen to them,

People don't enjoy violence in real life, but they love it in their movies. And I think a lot of studio horror movies don't want to offend anybody. If there's anything that's too far out there, they test it and if it offends people, they take it out. But Open Water , Wolf Creek , The Devil's Rejects - these are movies made outside of the studio system, that don't have a happy ending. (The studios and critics) forget that that's what people are paying for - to be terrified and disturbed.

People didn't realize he actually entered the hospital after the verdict. He was dehydrated, he had lost a tremendous amount of weight, he was having trouble keeping food down, he was terrified about what was going happen to his children and he had a recurring back problem.

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

They're terrified of missing out on the upside. The cult of equities is alive and well.

They are terrified with the prospect of coming face to face with Ms. Teale, ... No one has been more directly affected by the actions of Ms. Teale and Bernardo.

They are terrified they will make a mistake,

You don't want a bunch of people panicking and terrified that we're not going to be able to do anything for them. We're developing our communications plans right now, and based on what we know, we can have some of that ready.

At first when I drove, I didn't want anyone else in the car with me. I was terrified that something could happen and someone would get hurt.

The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.'

It was the highlight of my career. The Ryder Cup is amazing. It is the most terrified I have ever been on a golf course.

I've had to learn how to use a gun. I was absolutely terrified when I realised it was not a stunt double, it was actually me doing this.

The venom I witnessed in that courtroom going through this trial for the second time both terrified me and saddened me.

Once I got to the boy, it's weird, but any feelings of being scared or terrified kind of left me. I felt panicky after I stepped back and the paramedics took over.

Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.

In February 1969, 25 years ago, I arrived as a young, terrified PFC on this lonely little hill in Quang Ngai Province. Back then, the place seemed huge and imposing and permanent.

I nearly shot a young girl who had a handgun in her hand and was intoxicated, shooting wildly into the darkness. She was terrified and I was terrified.

I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.

I'm terrified I won't have a home to go home to.

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

I'm hoping that she has hunkered down somewhere, that she's terrified and she's hiding for a couple of days before she's brave enough to come out.

I lived in an apartment in Los Angeles that had six stone stairs. I was terrified I would fall, but the owners wouldn't put up a railing.

I'm a night person, but because of being in the film business and having children, my schedule has shifted, and I'm always terrified that I'm going to oversleep.

In the U.S., Americans are terrified of Big Brother. Yet we have no problem allowing lots of Little Brothers, such as the credit card companies, to have our information indefinitely. So now we have thousands of Little Brothers and the Internet giving us hundreds of new ways to track people.

I just sat there and held him for awhile, and looked into his eyes, ... He was terrified of dying, and I was trying to focus him, to talk him down. There was nothing else I could do.

I just sat there and held him for a while and looked into his eyes, ... He was terrified of dying, and I was trying to focus him, to talk him down. There was nothing else I could do.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours.' And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard Hughes, I could have him give a monologue about how he's terrified to touch a doorknob. But on screen, you know, working with Marty Scorsese in 'The Aviator,' that became the series of images that told a story.

But I'm dying now and done for, / What on earth was all the fun for? / For I'm old and ill and terrified and tight.

I didn't know to be as terrified as I should have been, ... I was sort of sent to the edge and told to jump off.

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

Once I’m obsessed with somebody, I’m terrified of them instantly. I’m not scared of them—I’m scared of me and how I will react,

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

I can never practice. I'm terrified of losing my skills after going months without playing ... before I came (to Ohio State), drums and music were my life.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

You're never terrified when you say what you mean - are you?

I'm not a technical person. It's not something I personally do love. I'm actually terrified of it, and that is what's interesting to me about it.

Im always terrified when Im writing.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not.

I am terrified of being bored.

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.

I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

The culture that Edith Wharton writes about is very nouveau riche. They don't have the experience or grace of knowing how to be rich, of how to act, or how to treat people. There's a lot of measuring up, a ton of greed. They basically eat each other alive. People are terrified of what might happen to them, because things are changing so incredibly fast. Everyone is very guarded about their money and yet they flaunt it shamelessly. They're consumers, in all senses of the word.

All of these union bosses are terrified that the governor's reforms are going to take power and influence out of Sacramento and give it back to the people of California, ... The debate over the special election is a simple one - vote yes on the governor's reforms if you want real change, vote no if you are happy with the way things are.

The last two weeks have been horrible for her as she has been terrified she would be forced to make prison visits.

The kind of boy's club I'm used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, 'I'm sensitive and nerdy,' but actually, it's like, 'You're a huge child and you're terrified of women, but you don't like sports, so you think that makes you less of a misogynist.'

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.

I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

I'm terrified of performing live.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway...

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.