Fran Drescher Quotes

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

I was very lucky that I didn't end up a basket case.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I think I'm prone to panic.

I have a lot of nightmares.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

The is an intensity of anxiety here greater than I ever saw during the [Civil] war.

I've been living with anxiety much, much, much longer than I've been with living with alcoholism, that's for sure. I already knew from the sheer numbers and all the data that I'm not alone. I mean, the biggest mistake I did was spending most of my life thinking I was the only person who felt this way.

I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It's sort of like an ebb and flow thing.

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.

'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.

The longest I've gone without a panic attack is about two months. Even then I can feel it bubbling away under the surface.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst.

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up and start taking life a bit more seriously, which had a huge impact on me. I suffered terrible anxiety, and sometimes, in the middle of a game, my legs would start shaking uncontrollably. It was pretty scary.

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.