I had no IDEA who I was when I started. I was FRIGHTENED to death and had no natural PERFORMING skills.

I THINK that sometimes people are frightened to TAKE the RISK of entrepreneurship.

I feel that Indian WOMEN are too FRIGHTENED. They all SAY, 'I can't do this, I can't do that.' WORSE, their families don't support them.

How strange this FEAR of death is! We are never FRIGHTENED at a sunset.

For the last FOUR or FIVE years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were TERRIFIC. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could TELL that it was working.

And when Roger talks about the frightened ONES running AWAY from the BOMBS, I immediately thought of my days when I was YOUNG and I had to wear these GAS masks.

I TEND to do THINGS that I'm very FRIGHTENED of. That's what I do.

I'm not FRIGHTENED about TERRORISM. I'm frightened about the ROOTS of what we CALL terrorism.

Everything scares me. I'm very EASILY frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I REALLY, really don't like zombies.

I was brought up a JEW but, you know, that WAY of being Jewish - the New YORK way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm FRIGHTENED of synagogue to this DAY.

I knew all of the childhood PRAYERS I uttered on my knees at the side of my BED. Many years of Sunday-school ATTENDANCE had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep INSIDE of me, I had the secret belief that I did not KNOW how to pray, and that frightened me.

As a KID, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, TEXAS, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It REALLY SORT of frightened me.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of HUMILIATION, sure their WORK will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of HOME, I suppose.

If you're EXTREMELY, PAINFULLY FRIGHTENED of AGE, it SHOWS.