Jenny Lawson Quotes

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

I have a tendency to freak myself out.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

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

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

I think I'm prone to panic.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

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

Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

When I had my first panic attack, I believed that it was a heart attack.

Anxiety affects everyone differently. I spoke to someone who felt like their heart was beating 1,000 times a minute. With me, it was a dizziness, feeling sick, constant, 24 hours a day.

Anxiety is my kryptonite.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

Now is the age of anxiety.

I was an emotional basket case.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

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.