“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 84 of 107
“There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.”
“In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.”
“I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.”
“Sometimes people just show up, which is kind of scary. And then you are like, 'Okay guy... got to leave'.”
“It would be creepy if you knew my home address.”
“And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.”
“But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.”
“Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.”
“I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.”
“I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.”
“Let's say you're someone's phone, and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very subtly indicating where the local coffee shop is which happens to have paid, you know, whoever makes your phone at the right moment. I think we're in a future where frankly we are possibly facing little tiny bits of manipulation in all of our waking hours, if we don't have that already.”
“When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.”
“Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.”
“Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear answers, but you're not stuck. The minute you represent the situation to yourself as being stuck, though, that's exactly how you'll feel. We must be very careful about the metaphors we allow ourselves to use.”
“Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.”
“There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.”
“That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.”
“I'm very Canadian. I want everyone to love me, and I just get nervous.”
“Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.”