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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. -- Karin Slaughter
Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. -- Ridley Scott
Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned. -- Stephen King
I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks. -- Rita Wilson
Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. -- Ridley Scott
I enjoy scaring people. -- Anthony Horowitz
I enjoy scaring people too much to let it go! -- Neil Marshall
I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life. -- Tom Felton
I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. -- Eli Roth
When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly. -- Alan Cumming
There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies. -- Greg Ginn
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death. -- David Whyte
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up. -- Leo Kottke
I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one. -- Stephen Collins
Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women. -- Frank Miller
I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone. -- Matthew Macfadyen
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on. -- Nick Cave
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples? -- Alison Owen
I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world. -- Alan Cranston
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that? -- Luis von Ahn
Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set! -- Laura Marano
My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was the one scaring them. We used to play football by this place called the Myer's House. It was a big, spooky house with the gables; we'd hang out there and scare each other. -- Richard Chizmar
I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work. -- Jason Reitman
When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person. -- Michael Feldman
I feel like if it's not scaring you, you're doing it wrong. -- Anna Kendrick
You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people. -- Bruce Springsteen
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There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about. -- Steven Moffat
I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself. -- Gina Carano
Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people. -- Taylor Swift
But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to? -- Lynda Barry
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. -- Sergei Parajanov
If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much. -- Karin Slaughter
I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
You're scaring the dog," Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that inprisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization." -- Garth Stein
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children. -- Noah Lukeman
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. -- Henry David Thoreau
Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood. -- Philip Larkin
Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything. -- Dale Peck
No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits. -- Cub Koda
It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default. -- Eric Bolling
Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit. -- Michelle Sutton
Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot. -- Ilona Andrews
I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing. -- Nina Dobrev
Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes. -- James Patterson
One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear. -- Faraaz Kazi
[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day. -- Max Brooks
I don't like that [scaring] feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to fix all of these problems that seem absolutely unfixable to me. -- Stevie Nicks
The media, the corporations, the politicians"¦have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all. -- Michael Moore

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