Unwarranted Anxiety Quotes

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

There is something daunting about getting a role you didn't formally audition for, another weight of needing to prove yourself.

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

Why should I? No one would wish to hurt me.

There comes a point when threats become so overblown that they serve to irk rather than to frighten.

When I was a freshman at Yale, one teacher brought me up after class and said, 'You're trying to undermine my class.' And I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be kicked out of school on the first week.' Not only do I not have a sense of self, I don't even know what she's talking about. I don't even know how to undermine anything.

I worry about my children worrying about me, feeling like they need to be the strong ones. It's not the right order of things.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work.

If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.

I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

I'm not a great fan of the modern style of personal agonising, which crops up a bit too often for my liking.

It was me that was holding myself back because I felt like I had to fit into this mold of what people want to see.