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The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself. -- Wes Craven
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. -- Lance Armstrong
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of. -- Angelina Jolie
Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently. -- Sara Blakely
Living is what scares me. Dying is easy. -- Charles Manson
They can't scare me, if I scare them first. -- Lady Gaga
If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people. -- Pat Robertson
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. -- Lord Byron
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you. -- Ted Nugent
I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. -- Rita Rudner
You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off. -- Sarah Dessen
To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. -- John Ashcroft
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois. -- Albert Einstein
If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside. -- John C. Maxwell
You hear it every four years, ... Scare the seniors, scare the seniors. -- John McCain
God has not given us Bible prophecy to Scare us but to Prepare us. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still. -- Anthony Hopkins
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach. -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget - remember the Alar Scare? Things - see, nobody even remembers Alar. -- Greg Gutfeld
Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere? -- Eoin Colfer
It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world. -- Jim Goad
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. -- Rob Sheffield
American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. -- Rob Sheffield
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At my age flowers scare me. -- George Burns
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared. -- Vincent Price
There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. -- Tupac Shakur
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. -- E. W. Howe
The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS. -- Dr. Dre
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. -- M. Night Shyamalan
I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it. -- Kiki Dee
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. -- Mao Zedong
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away. -- Nick Saban
But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis. -- Vladimir Putin
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all. -- David Carradine
I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with. -- Edward Furlong
I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. -- Jim Carrey
I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that. -- Valerie Bertinelli
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. -- Sam Shepard
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. -- Roger Waters
What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me. -- Jane Wiedlin
I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me. -- Mesut Ozil
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault. -- Jenna McCarthy
I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience. -- Joel Edgerton
I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework. -- Natalia Tena
Your headlights don't scare me. -- Ilona Andrews
I tend to scare myself. -- Stephen King
It takes a lot to scare me. -- AnnaLynne McCord
I can scare myself like a pro. -- Imogen Poots
The scare quotes burn off like fog. -- Ben Lerner
To tell the truth, I'd scare me too. -- Jethro Tull
White people scare the crap out of me. -- Michael Moore
Sometimes women scare the hell out of me. -- Michael Crichton
Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do. -- Ellen Hopkins
Dude you scare me sometimes! You're all vampire superwoman -- Melissa de la Cruz
If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational. -- Etgar Keret
Scary movies scare me. The Exorcist is really scary. -- John Molina, Jr.
I don't watch horror movies because they scare me! -- Sarah Wayne Callies
It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him. -- Edwin Feulner
When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. -- Gary Zukav
To do something good, it has to scare you. -- Angelina Jolie
I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. -- Richard Feynman
A good scare is worth more than good advice. -- Horace
Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed. -- Patrick Stump
I can scare the pants off the holiest ghost. -- Def Leppard
If I were directing a movie, it would scare me. -- Seth Rogen
It's important to do things that scare you to death! -- Reese Witherspoon
Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit. -- Richard Pryor
I'm going to scare a lot of kids Thursday night. -- Jon Gruden
It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. -- Lena Dunham
Jeez, Claire. If I didn't love you, you'd scare me. -- Rachel Caine
I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you -- Catherine Bell
If you want to scare people, you talk about evil. -- Noam Chomsky
Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them. -- Mark Twain
The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you. -- Elmer Davis
Britney: My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me. -- Britney Spears
If it doesn't scare you, you're probably not dreaming big enough. -- Tory Burch
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. -- Elmer Davis
Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me. -- Sophie Turner
New white people, you can't scare these white people, I tried. -- Dave Chappelle
The things that scare you only make you better and stronger. -- Octavia Spencer
If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough. -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. -- Lorde
Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you. -- Dolly Parton
I'd send Christina Aguilera to Mars cos she'd scare all the aliens! -- Lee Ryan
Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite. -- Alexandra Roach
What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare -- Iggy Pop
It's going to scare some people, because that's what good music does. -- Chris Kirkpatrick
A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot. -- Joe Vitale
Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean. -- Julie Anne Peters
I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings. -- Judy Blume
I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end. -- Samantha Barks
It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you. -- Katherine Paterson
I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world. -- Colin Powell
I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me. -- Caroline Rhea
The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people. -- Bill Schneider
If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you. -- Andre Previn
I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic. -- Bill Maher
Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right. -- Eileen Wilks
I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films. -- Kate Ashfield
By experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you. -- Gary Zukav
I am really easy to scare, and I dont enjoy watching spooky films. -- Kate Ashfield
How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn't fear death? -- Todd Burpo
Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me. -- Kristen Stewart
I'm massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me. -- Robert Kazinsky
I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie. -- Janelle Monae
Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world. -- Aeriel Miranda
I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person. -- Laird Hamilton
If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important. -- Tim Ferriss
I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time. -- Josh Pais
You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess. -- Larry McMurtry
Im massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me. -- Robert Kazinsky
I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow. -- Vanessa Hudgens
When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare. -- Martha Beck
The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me. -- Rebecca McKinsey
See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help. -- Lynsay Sands
Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. -- Sara Blakely
Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk. -- David Letterman

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