Ty Segall Quotes

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

I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines.

Sometimes, at parties, people demand I tell a joke. It's like pointing a gun at my feet and telling me to dance.

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

Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.

Live TV would terrify anybody.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I never feel comfortable! I'm always anxious. I'm always all over the board. That said, I like doing comedy because it's easy to tell when you're getting it right because people laugh, and you can hear it, and they're smiling, and you can see it.

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love', now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.