Quotes About Anxiety

Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves... ?

The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

I can be completely spontaneous, which is absolutely wonderful. I don't like it at the same time; no one wants to be nervous all the time, but that nervousness mixes with the excitement I feel on the stage, and it makes for a wonderful performance.

I was scared someone would ask me something I didn't know and I'd be on the spot. It's the paranoia of a very shy person. I've gotten over those feelings about interviews for the most part.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

It's OK to feel good about yourself because it's not doing any good for anybody else to be fearful or spread anxiety.

I think the word 'yips' trivialises it; it is completely debilitating, like a cancer spreading through your game and just destroying it.

I was a star before I got more than $250 a week. Carole Lombard advised me how to get a raise. She said: 'Go to Palm Springs and stay there until they raise the ante.' They were waiting to start a picture with me and I was scared they'd forget me for someone else, but they came after me.

There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'

It didn't take me long to go from financial stability to fearing homelessness.

Outdoor stadiums scare me to death.

Some people think that confidence is something that some people just have. Even though I may look confident strutting in a two-piece on a stage, there are days when I'm so nervous, or I feel like, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can do this.'

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!