Joe Bastianich Quotes

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

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

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

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

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.