Quotes About Anxiety

Few things focus the mind like fear.

But when I'm nervous, I deflect a lot and it's very easy to fill the space with jokes.

It is really awful to be filming and not know if you can pay everybody.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

If there's an adrenaline rush, I will find it; if there's an anxiety attack, I will have it.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.

I'm scared of fish - the way they look at you.

My very first live shot was from the White House lawn. I literally almost threw up. I was so scared out of my mind. It was horrible.

Economic anxiety might not have won Donald Trump the White House, but much of his strongest support came from more sclerotic rural and industrial areas.

I was anxious to get back to my life before 'Will & Grace.' You do need that time to find who you are again. Who am I without this? With fame, you can't help but lose yourself. You want to be the one who says, 'I'll always remain the same,' but it is humanly impossible to disallow fame to change you.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life with fear, and totally destroyed all illusion that the world is safe or fair.

My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress because I'm always afraid I'm going to get a cold. And it's just such a nightmare when you got a cold or an irritation and you have to do a show.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

The interesting thing about depression and anxiety is that, it's not always wholly negative things that bring them on. Often times, those heavy swings of emotion can be brought on by just anything that is overly emotional.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.