Quotes About Anxiety

I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

I'm still nervous every time I act. I'm not when I'm doing stunts.

Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

Fear makes you do stupid things.

My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love', now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious.

I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

Even after spending a substantial time in the entertainment business, before the release of a film, I am nervous.

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.