Quotes About Anxiety

I find a lot of input from other people very stressful.

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

Travel is stressful.

'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

Auditioning for people you know is way more stressful than auditioning for people you don't know. And you have to pretend that you don't know because they're just staring at you.

Having kids in school feels stressful for me.

The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.

I am very shy. It's the most stressful thing to be in the public eye.

I find it's more stressful to watch than to play the game.

It's always hard being an alternate. Knowing you might not be put in, but you have to work just as hard. It's stressful.

It used to be that Denver was one of the most stressful cities to play because I was very nervous at coming home.

I was on 'Strictly' because I was getting stage fright. I was taught that I had to imagine what a good outcome would be and be happy with it.

I've always felt like there'd be pressure if I ever did 'Strictly.'

I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.

Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

I had been introduced to rapping in a way where women and people did it, it was structured. It had this very very political structure to it and if you didn't follow the structure, you weren't considered validated or real and that just gave me anxiety.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

As you know, I have been very open about my struggle with social anxiety.

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

I'd always struggled with being a very depressed and anxious person in high school. If I had let that kind of dark moment consume me, I wouldn't be able to climb out of it. So I became a bit of a shark.

I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.