• "When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear." - Jeanne Moreau Tweet
• "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart." - Lewis Thomas Tweet
• "There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down." - Don DeLillo Tweet
• "I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business." - David Walliams Tweet
• "I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs." - Diane Abbott Tweet
• "Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear." - Jean-Paul Sartre Tweet
• "I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul." - J. G. Ballard Tweet
• "I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated." - Tupac Shakur Tweet
• "Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause." - Plutarch Tweet
• "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." - Harry S. Truman Tweet