Elizabeth Vargas Quotes

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

I get stressed out really easily.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

I tend to panic and fear on a low-grade level every day, but when something really disastrous happens, I kick into super high gear; a kind of transcendent, save-everybody mind-set.

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

In the moments before a game starts my stomach turns around as if I had to vomit. Then I have to choke so violently until my eyes tear.

I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting.

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you away from being able to access your upper rational brain and think and assess what to do. It essentially disables your ability to think.