Quotes About Anxiety

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

I wish I had the guts and talent to be a good comedian. I love the idea of it, yet I'm terrified of it. I'd also love to play music in front of people.

I am actually terrified of sharks; it is my number-one fear.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Every time I go to work, I feel like it's the first time; I feel terrified and excited and exhilarated and like a deer in the headlights. I think: how do I do this? And then it just happens. Like riding a bike, you know?

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

I am terrified of plane landing. It's a phobia for me.

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.

I still get terrified if I have to talk in front of a group of people. By having a character to play, it makes it safer.

When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. 'They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they're going to do this; they're going to do that.'

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of people I respect have done it with a real little 'ditty' and that was the end of it - that was all they were ever known for.

If I think even a week ahead, I get terrified. My big thing is trying to enjoy the moment as much as I can.

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

There were times at the start of it all when I would be standing, terrified, in front of the cameras and people I considered 'real' actors. I had no idea what was happening, what the guy with the clipboard did, or if people in the studio were looking at me because it was their job to look at me or because they thought I was making a mess of things.