Guillermo del Toro Quotes

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

I'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.

I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

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

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

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 lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.

I get stressed out really easily.

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn't think of being on 'American Idol.' I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have.

'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

There are times when I do feel very nervous when I start a film. And I feel very nervous before the release. I do get stuck in some scenes, but that's very natural and human. It happens to all the artistes in the world.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

It's in me to get steaming and to think too much, worry too much about the future, the past.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.