Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

When you're tense and you're forcing the issue, you kind of cloud your vision, so I think just being confident and super relaxed, waiting for my timing, has really helped me.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

I'm not a super nervous guy in general. I don't live a ton of my life in my head.

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness.

I don't know why, but I don't really get too nervous before games or practices or whatever.

A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I'm doing. It's not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it's just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it's hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.

The nerves are still there. I might just do a better job at hiding them.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.