Zooey Deschanel Quotes

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

You're scared of what you can't control

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

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

What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

Sometimes I want to control things more than I'm able to.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

Adults under threat feel like children.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.