Quotes About Anxiety

I've come to a point where I am less nervous when I am supposed to start a film. I am still super nervous on the day but I've lost a lot of my fear about what kind of perception people have about my film.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

My fear of making mistakes or my anxiety about being perceived less than serious or perfect was holding me back from being good at my job.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.

I'm a worrier and a perfectionist, and live television is like the antithesis of that, so it's been an interesting sort of push-pull of what I forgive myself for and what I don't.

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

I'm at my best when I'm nervous, scared. I feel like I'm on the edge, that's when I perform better.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

I'm really scared of clowns, and for a while, I was scared to perform and sing in front of a crowd. Also, I'm not a big scary movie guy. They stay with me for a while.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

I hate every moment of live performance.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

I've always been an anxious performer. I've never liked performing.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.