Jonathan Groff Quotes

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

I know how it feels to be the newbie.

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

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

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

I do still get intimidated by certain things.

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.