Hima Das Quotes

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

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

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

At this very moment, I don't feel I will be able to handle what's coming.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

Sometimes I want to control things more than I'm able to.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

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.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.