Quotes About Anxiety

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.

I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

I don't plan on ever letting my daughters date. I'm going to try to do everything I can to prevent it. You know, it just terrifies me. It just terrifies me.

None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.

The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.

I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.

The creation of God itself, I deduced, came from our primal fear.

Fear is ubiquitous in human life. It starts in infancy with our primal state of helplessness, where we can see what's going on but we can't move to get it. As we grow older we become a little more able to get what we want but then we're going to die so that gives fear another boost.

The industry gives an actor many reasons to feel insecure primarily because of its fleeting nature.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such a private person. So I like to try and keep things light-hearted and stay as private as possible.

I live in dread that I might find myself in some sort of emergency, and everyone will turn to me and expect me to know what the correct procedures are.

Your girl gets a lot of anxiety. It's OK. It's a learning process.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.