Quotes About Anxiety

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi.

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

I can't have a daily routine. I feel really overwhelmed a lot of the time. I don't take much comfort in routine, but if I don't start, I could really get eaten alive by my industry.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

I feel like I am in a box of bees when I am in a room with lots of people and I'm just looking for the door. I find myself getting more and more agoraphobic as time goes on.

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

After that, anytime she caught me near a kitchen she'd start in on me. So I have an automatic sphincter clench any time I reach for a pan. (Devyn)