Faye Marsay Quotes

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Who hasn't had the 'I went to school/work in my underwear' dream?

I've dreamed on numerous occasions that I've lost the biggest event in my life, and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I worry too much.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

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.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.

I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

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

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

People come up to me in airports, they walk into the office, and they say, 'I'm going to cry; I'm going to pass out.' And I say, 'Please don't pass out; I'm not a doctor.'