Quotes About Anxiety

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

I'm not like, overly anxious or nothing like that, because sometimes when you're overly anxious it kind of brings a weird energy around and I just like to just take things one day at a time.

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

I Rushed to get back before it was time.

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.