After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.
People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.
I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.
Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.
At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given. ' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.
Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils. . . for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof. . . . They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.
Sometimes we don't face what's going on in our world, be it a water crisis or an earth crisis, because it's a little too scary and painful. Just like we don't want to face the parts of ourselves that are a little too uncomfortable or painful. We've gotta face both and love both so that we can heal both.
If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
You cannot pray them out of hell.
I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide. . . and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.
Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.
Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.