Quotes About Anxiety

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

I've had success, but I'm still haunted by the fear of being hungry. Once you've lived it it never leaves you.

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.

When I'm scared of hurting myself, I start to overthink things and won't go for it.

I get too hyped before games.

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, 'My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.'

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

Kids have got such active imaginations and they're scared of so many different things.

I haven't even imagined having a kid yet. It's actually kind of one of my biggest fears, but that's OK.

I enjoy it immensely, but I'm not comfortable on stage as a person.

I am very impatient.

Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because they can't handle the attention and the financial implications of every brushstroke.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

I always had the impression England never came to competitions with freedom of mind. They are so afraid of mistakes.