Top 195 Anxious Quotes

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

I don’t know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

I’m anxious to make another film.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

There’s a reason why I do anxious characters – it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history, it’s really fun to bring that into the characters… and play with it.

I’m not built to be famous, I’m not a star. I’m not special, so being stared at makes me very anxious.

I’m an extraordinarily anxious person. I’m a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

I’d always struggled with being a very depressed and anxious person in high school. If I had let that kind of dark moment consume me, I wouldn’t be able to climb out of it. So I became a bit of a shark.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

When I heard about how big a star Puneeth Rajkumar is, I was anxious about working with him. It was only after we began shooting that I realized how chilled-out and down-to-earth he actually is. We worked hard on the set but also had fun doing so.

The only time I’m relaxing is when I have the puck and controlling the puck. If I don’t have it, I’m getting anxious, and I want to have it.

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 am always anxious to know what has happened while I’ve been asleep.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

I’m stoked because no one’s really even seen Bo yet. It took me half the season to get used to not having a guitar wrapped around my neck. So I’m anxious for the fans to see what Bo’s really about.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I’m terribly anxious when it’s not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.

I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

I think that’s part of my evolution: realizing that I can say ‘no’ to things, even when I’m faced with that lull that comes between projects, and I get anxious because I feel like I need to be constantly working.

When my first film ‘Paruthiveeran’ released, I had no time to get excited. It was a worrying time for me. I was anxious to know how it would be accepted.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It’s giving people new expectations. It’s allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you’ll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

I think when I look out and I see there’s so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that’s one view of the world. But you don’t have to always focus on that view of the world.

Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

Love is full of anxious fears.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

If you aren’t having fun, if you aren’t anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won’t be able to entertain anyone else, either.

If you clear your mind, you can fill it with your character. If it is cluttered, if it is anxious, if you’re thinking about your date, about your dinner, about filling your refrigerator, there’s no room. There’s no room for the character you’re trying to build.

I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I’m feeling anxious, it helps me.

You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don’t know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt.

I hate flying. I don’t like planes. I get really anxious.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

For me, the scariest moment is walking on set before we shoot the first shot, and I am so anxious. It’s a lot of pressure, and it’s scary, and I don’t think that fear ever goes away.

Rational anxiety is when you’re aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I’m going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I’m leaving CVS, and there’s a car behind me, and I’m wondering if he’s following me home.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they’re trying to fill by performing. I’m anxious to keep creating, but I’m not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.

There’s a different feeling when you show up and you’re defending. You can’t wait to get out there. You’re not anxious that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday would be over, but you’re just excited to get that ball in the air on Thursday.

I think players tend to get anxious if they’ve not really done things properly – like eating, resting or training. If you’re fully prepared you’ve got nothing to worry about – it’s just a game of football.

I always say, ‘Be anxious for nothing,’ because if this is my social media, if this is a platform for me to really get the word out and get my brand out, then why am I gonna be anxious about it?

I’m a very anxious person, and it’s hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

The word ‘improv’ always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we’ll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy – just not in the same moment that you’re sad.

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

One can’t live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.

When we’re anxious we tend to shrink into a defeatist position, curving our shoulders or backs. Learning to stand straight, take a breath and speak slowly helps to project a sense of confidence, relieving some of that anxiety.

I have a lot of anxiety and mental health struggles and things, as we all do. Sometimes, I would be so anxious and so hyper-aware, I would just create these scenarios in my head that were not actually happening, or I would read way too freaking deeply into things.

My birthstone is amethyst. I have one from my grandma that’s kind of like my good-luck charm. If I’m anxious, I hold it.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.