Penn Jillette Quotes

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

I think anxiety is the nature of most environments today, and people feel inadequate when they are not able to cope with it.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

I can't play video games because I get too nervous. It just stresses me out.

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

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

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

I get stressed out really easily.

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.

I don't ever feel like I have it all together.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

Insecurity, for me, feels like the sensation of suffocating.

I'm like an overgrown child! I don't know how to do anything!

Everybody can relate to that feeling that, 'I'm having one of those days where I'm not doing anything right.'

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.