Charisma Carpenter Quotes

I wasn't always a willing passer.

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

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

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

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

When people have recently asked me my profession, I have not dared to reply.

Throughout 'Doris,' and while I was recording it, you could hear I was apprehensive towards everything. I can't explain it. It wasn't fun; it was like I had to do it.

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

People motivated by fear do not act well.

No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Nearly everybody, when they first meet me, seems to have this sense of trepidation.

We're only human, and fear can eat away at you the closer you get to a big fight.

I don't want to have to fight Urijah. It's not something I want to do.

I get a pit in my stomach every time I think of that last attempt to make 155 for the Anthony Pettis fight. I just get this nasty feeling in my stomach, because no exaggeration, that was one of the scariest moments of my life. I remember that I couldn't stop my body from shaking.

The thought of real-life scares me to death.

Confrontation makes me nervous.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

When it was time to come out, I was obviously scared, as most people are.

All worry is fear-based.