Quotes About Anxiety

It's not as if I never used to get under pressure. That is nonsense. It's just that my looks gave an appearance, and people didn't think I was tense.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

I have problems with the trigeminal nerves, which may be triggered by stress and tension.

When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

I remember going through checkpoints as a kid. It felt normal but, looking back, of course it created tension. People standing with guns, sometimes your car getting searched and being asked where you are going. It changes the atmosphere.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring.

The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

There's always very high tension with dance auditions! You're in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you'll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.

I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that tension with a joke.

My grandmother came with me when I moved out to New York. She stayed with me for a week. I was, you know, living in the dorm. The first year, I had a lot of anxiety, and, I remember, my teachers kept saying I had so much jaw tension.

For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.

When I'm driving, you have a different feeling when the police get behind you and you're not even breaking the law. The tension is so high.

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.