I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.
I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.
I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."
One of the happy consequences of my brain is that I rarely sleep.
As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.
Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this 'gunk, gunk, gunk' rhythm.
We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting away from a lion.
If you are very nervous, it is going to affect you and you start feeling tired or anxiety sets in.
Outside stimulation makes me nervous!
Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.
Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.
A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.
It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.
I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
