Nina Dobrev Quotes

You can tell when you look at someone and think 'he's on the brink of fainting' or that certainly something's not right.

I have a weak stomach. My wife is a doctor, so she finds it funny that I actually pass out when I get my blood drawn. I physically can't stand gore on screen. I can't stand blood and guts. Not for any puritanical/moral high-ground reason. I just don't want to black out.

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.

I was really squeamish growing up - not too fond of blood and guts.

I have a major phobia of height and water.

Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

I'm surprisingly squeamish.

Go sit down and look pale.

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Until 1513, women convicted of adultery in Nuremberg were buried alive. After that, they were drowned. Schmidt advocated that they should be beheaded for a quicker, more merciful death. He got his way even though critics maintained that weak women might faint and he might be obliged to finish them off on the ground. Consequently, Schmidt took the precaution of seating the condemned woman in a chair and beheading her with his sword from behind.

I won't go deep sea fishing. The first time I experienced it, I went salmon fishing. My problem is, before I even get to the fish, I have vomited. You have to go out five miles, and you are just throwing a line in and bringing them to the surface. And then you have to go back five miles, and all of a sudden the wind comes up, and it gets choppy.

Did I still feel like I'd been run over by a Mack Truck? Absolutely. It's chemo, after all.

Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys - I jump out of my skin.

I'm scared of heights and I'm scared of the ocean.

This is the thing: I get motion sickness.

I am good with heights, but my biggest fear was creepy crawlies.

I don't like blood - I was trying to study to be a doctor, but I don't like blood.

Going through chemo is a monster. You literally feel like you're dying every day.