I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.
We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.
What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.
I would suggest always getting behind a company that shares your goals, whom you have access to the people who run it and who truly care about the world. This way we steer the ship together and many fears can be let go of.
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.
Never take counsel of your fears.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.
Love is full of anxious fears.
We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.
There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.
From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat.
We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
