Anxiety Symptoms Quotes

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

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

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.

When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.

I don't know about other comedians, but I know that I never have felt anything like stage fright. I've felt nervous before big shows, but I think that's different than stage fright.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

When I have to take phone calls, I start to sweat and panic. Being on the phone is so weird - hearing a voice without seeing the face so you can't really know the intention behind the voice.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

I've never been all that comfortable in real life.

I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.

So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.

When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.

I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.