Gia Coppola Quotes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

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

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Panic is never productive.

I have horrible anxiety.

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

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that." "You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all." "But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.

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 it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn't count for anything.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of continuous disruption puts us into a constant state of hormone-induced stress.

He who considers too much will perform little.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.