Panic Attack Quotes

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

Everything has got a place in my house. If something is moved I get a panic attack.

The biggest problem for people who get really, really nervous when they perform live is that you think everybody's looking at you.

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.

I'm very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

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.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

When I was 11, I developed a new symptom - the worst one yet: I had to touch people before I talked to them. When I say 'had to,' that's exactly what I mean: if I didn't touch them first, I literally couldn't form the words.

Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.