It’s one of those weird things where I’m always curious about what’s next. It’s not just an empty restlessness, I try to appreciate things as they’re going along and in the moment, but when things are good, I’m always anxious about how I can better that or take it on further.
Wrestling means a lot to me, so I think I’m always going to have the anxious excitement right before I go out the curtain.
I was completely anxious when I was young.
People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they’re saying, ‘Everything’s fine!’
I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.
Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself ‘Remember the purple sky’ when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
Practically everybody knows what it’s like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.
The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I’ve gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
There are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don’t think people realize how short of a time we have been discussing this issue compared to how long this has been an issue.
Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can’t sleep.
I’m usually quite quiet in the day, a little bit anxious, I get my thoughts processed.
It’s not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn’t even know what I was saying… it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it’s just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.
I never feel comfortable! I’m always anxious. I’m always all over the board. That said, I like doing comedy because it’s easy to tell when you’re getting it right because people laugh, and you can hear it, and they’re smiling, and you can see it.
When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
I was anxious to get back to my life before ‘Will & Grace.’ You do need that time to find who you are again. Who am I without this? With fame, you can’t help but lose yourself. You want to be the one who says, ‘I’ll always remain the same,’ but it is humanly impossible to disallow fame to change you.
Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.
Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.
Having a task to focus solely on makes me forget about anything I’m worried or anxious about.
We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn’t even walk around anymore… I was really socially anxious and strange.
I’m terribly prone to anxiety. I get very depressed and I get very anxious and my anxiety is almost always about my children.
Years ago, I met once a week, 9 A.M. sharp, with a therapist whom I will call Dr. Mason. We would settle in well-worn chairs, Dr. Mason, a slender, balding middle-ager in blazer and striped tie, and me, an anxious academic in Levi’s and tweeds.
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America’s macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her ‘poor nerves.’
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: ‘May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.’ Repeat this until you actually mean it.
I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after ‘Taps’ in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was.
From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn’t count for anything.
There were times I felt I’d never get my life back. Am I ever going to be normal and go out with my friends and have a beer and not think I am going to wake up at 3 A. M. and have anxious thoughts about what normal people are doing?
I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, ‘How am I going to get behind that?’
I was just very shy. I was never anxious to do talk shows, as I didn’t know what to say. And I don’t feel I have any inherent interest. But as I’m getting older, I feel I want to be able to share whatever I know if it means something to someone.
I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren’t like that, you’d be dead, wouldn’t you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I’ve never been like that. I don’t want to be.
In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I’m giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can’t remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
With ‘Badhaai Ho,’ I loved the script but was anxious that someone else might get the role.
I think that even at my most anxious, if I have a job to do or a role to fill, I know on some level I can step up and complete it. I mean, I’m probably not going to go bungee jumping anytime soon… but pushing myself to weather some discomfort now and then feels healthy.
I have developed my eye as a cinematographer through the craft of operating. When I am not operating, I am often anxious, uncertain, restless, sometimes irritable. When I am in the position of working with Steadicam or remote cameras, I fly with a broken wing.
At the beginning of ‘Friends,’ Matt LeBlanc was anxious. Every time he did something, he would look for approval to the director, the producers or the writers if they were around. There would be a look of: ‘Am I doing this right?’
A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.
We say yes to every invite, and then we feel tired and anxious and stressed and overworked and burnt out.
