Chloe Sevigny Quotes

I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

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 can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

I can't play video games because I get too nervous. It just stresses me out.

Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines.

I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.

I never stop getting nervous. I'm nervous before every single show.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

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 hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.