Jane Levy Quotes

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

Auditioning sucks!

I'm nervous about everything I do with Africa. You almost want it to go good all the time, and you don't want to disappoint.

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.

It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.