Quotes About Anxiety

I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.

You should know that there are heroes here who are unduly worried about each role they portray.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.

I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.

I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.

I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility.

Anxiety about the possibility that children will be corrupted if they hear rude words has been around for a long time.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Every day I get something in the post telling me to worry about something else. Worry mail is big business.

We are obsessed in England with the idea that we're not good enough at retaining the ball, and that our players treat it like a hot potato.

I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet.

While I felt like we potentially had something really huge in 'Gotham,' you're always nervous that it won't live up.

I've always felt like if I had a bad practice, I could potentially get cut the next day.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.

Going into my first Ryder Cup, my big fear was that I would contribute nothing to the team and that we'd lose.