Quotes About Anxiety

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

There is an innate fear that runs within Israeli society of all that we see and hear around us, and you know what? It's a natural reaction of human beings.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

I don't care who you are, if you're not feeling anxious before playing in a final, you're not a real person. I don't care who you are.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

Fear is a real thing.

I didn't realise how devastating my behavior could be - looking back, I'm very embarrassed. I just buckled under the anxiety.

If I've done a gig and at the end there are people waiting for autographs, they always seem nervous, but they probably don't realise that I'm more nervous than them. I get very embarrassed.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

This ain't bad-guy talk, cos I'm not a bad guy. But people don't realise what fear can do. I've had situations where I've been so scared, where I can't sleep, I can't eat, and it's gone on for weeks and it's ruining my life. It makes you sick, it makes you mentally ill.

When it got to the diagnosis of my knee and when I realised how long I was going to be out, my thoughts spiralled out of control.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

I can guarantee this to you: every single actor has had a dream of walking on stage on press night and realising that they don't know their lines.

I don't fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, 'Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.'

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

When I got outta school, I didn't know what I was gonna do with my life. I knew I didn't have much in the grades department, and so I was very fearful. A whole lot of fear.

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.'

People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it's in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.