Sherwood Anderson Quotes

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

Boys on set drives me a little bit loopy.

For sure, I definitely feel like there's a target on my back.

It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face!

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

You can't really get as much done when you're worried about looking gross.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

For a long time, I had this constant feeling that I just wanted to look behind me. The hairs on my neck were standing up all the time, I didn't know where was safe.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.

We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we're doing and try not to think about the madness that's surrounding it, and all the hype.

Because my parents were illegal, they couldn't trust anybody. They were always nervous. A neighbor could be like, 'These people are making too much noise, their children are making too much noise,' and the cops could knock at our door and ask for our papers, and that's it. It's that simple. So you're always a little closed.

It's bad enough on a first date trying not to say something dumb without having three Secret Service guys with you.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

I feel like a crazy person all the time, and I feel like people are watching me, and I feel paranoid.