Steven Wright Quotes

I'm claustrophobic.

I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.

I'm very claustrophobic.

I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I definitely have anxiety.

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

I've become increasingly agoraphobic.

Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.

I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

I have sort of issues with my claustrophobia where being on an airplane or if I force myself, to put myself in these circumstances that I kind of, am afraid of, that can be a way to toughen me up.

I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

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

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

Having a phobia has changed me.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.