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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Personally, I'm a real wimp with scary movies. I get so scared.

Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it's scary to walk down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

There are children everywhere out there that are lost. The scary thing is the list of children we have that are lost ? not the children that are here, but how many people can't find their children.

Masturbation is killing thousands and tens of thousands.

We're so inconsistent. That's what's scary about us, I'm sure for anybody's who's playing us, but it's also scary for me because I don't know what team we're going to be tonight.

What's scary is that we're just moving out of the lowest period of demand for the year and OPEC at full stretch was unable to keep prices down,