Libba Bray Quotes

You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

Whenever I have a bad day, I tell everybody around me, 'Just so guys know I am having a bad day and I am nervous about these things,' and that makes all the difference.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

I still bite my nails.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

I take a breath when I have to.

I pull my eyelashes when I'm tired or thinking - it's a nervous thing.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.