Quotes About Anxiety

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.

When I begin shooting, I get nervous, as I am under pressure to do my job well.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

I'm so genuine about what I do and how I want to do it, and I get anxiety when I'm pressured from the outside.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing.

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.

I think any time I'm nervous I just pretend that I'm not, and that's how I deal with it.

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

I'm the world's worst dancer. I have dancephobia.

I was so nervous about dancing because I've always thought of myself as a terrible dancer.

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.