Shaun Evans Quotes

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

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

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

You can't really get as much done when you're worried about looking gross.

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.

Pressure makes me produce. Kills most guys. Mortifies 'em.

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

I became super stressed, depressed and miserable because I thought I was terrible at my job when I could not perform flawlessly every day, every scene.

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

I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.

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.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

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.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

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.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

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 push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.