Quotes About Anxiety

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If you work through the night you can do anything.

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

It's always really scary to release new work.

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.

In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.

I've discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I'm on the wrong track.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.