But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it the less the fear is present.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

I'm not scared of anything in particular but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid and also of organizing it. They can scare us and they can comfort us.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.