Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

If I was any more on edge, I'd be Bono.

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

I'm nervous and awkward.

Confrontation makes me nervous.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage