Quotes About Anxiety

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

In real life, I first started sleep walking in high school because that was when this concept of getting into college first appeared. I had this moment of, 'Oh! This is going to affect the rest of my life.'

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight 'method' actor; as soon as he is in his cloak, he walks and talks like Snape - it is quite terrifying. But I really wanted to talk to him because 'Robin Hood' was one of my favourite films.

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.

I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.

I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.

I don't like sitting on the bench because I get more nervous there than when I am playing!

I'm afraid if I start to enjoy life, the rug will be yanked out from beneath me.

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.

Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot.

I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!

The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

I've been living with anxiety much, much, much longer than I've been with living with alcoholism, that's for sure. I already knew from the sheer numbers and all the data that I'm not alone. I mean, the biggest mistake I did was spending most of my life thinking I was the only person who felt this way.

My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren't going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.

The biggest problem for people who get really, really nervous when they perform live is that you think everybody's looking at you.

You'd expect the third time you do Live at the Apollo to be easier, easier peasier, a doddle. Like riding a bike. Except I can't ride a bike so that analogy has always been lost on me.