Kenneth Branagh Quotes

Panic is our great enemy.

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

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

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

I think when your imagination goes to work, and when you're first bullied, you feel like you're going to die. School becomes a war zone, and you can't function.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

I have a lot of health anxiety.

I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

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 think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.