John Rzeznik Quotes

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Writing is inherently scary.

Actors are frightened little children.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Public speaking is the number-one fear... even over death!

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

Putting your work out there is scary!

Everybody’s afraid of something.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.