Joe Gilgun Quotes

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.

Yes, I am nervous before a film's release and withdraw into a shell.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

This is the biggest night of my entire life and everybody's career rides on my DJ set

The first day of shooting, you always want to turn around and go home and say, "What was I thinking?!," and put your head under a pillow and weep. I could maybe go five weeks, and then the nerves would set in about when the next job was going to happen.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary.

Write about what you're afraid of.

I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared.

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.