Eddie Redmayne Quotes

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.

I'm learning to not worry too much about the future, and it's hard, but I'm doing it.

I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I'm on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I'm dying inside - I'm extremely stressed, but I do try, and... well, I don't try. I think it's my natural reaction to not externalize things.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.

Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.