Joss Whedon Quotes

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

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

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.

Panic is our great enemy.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

I'm always really worried about ruining their lives. Especially with people that aren't famous. It's such a massive change. I'm kind of a paranoid wreck. I've eaten a lot of room service.

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you're unprepared.

I have horrible anxiety.

I was under so much pressure. I often felt scared.

I suffer panic attacks, anxiety attacks, seemingly random triggers that immobilise me, render me useless but simultaneously unable to explain myself.

I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen.