Top 33 Claustrophobic Quotes

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn’t just looking back at you.

I will never forget seeing Alien when it came out in 1979. I’m not that big a fan of horror, but I remember the slow build, the claustrophobic feeling on the spacecraft, this tremendous sense of impending doom.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn’t going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

I don’t know if it’s irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I’m a little bit agoraphobic when I’m in huge crowds of people. I mean, it’s claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation.

It’s claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we’re exposing people to one particular point.

I’m claustrophobic. I can’t go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That’s my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can’t because I’m claustrophobic.

I really wouldn’t want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

The old adage is, ‘Write what you know.’ But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, ‘Write what you want to know.’

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

I’ve got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I’d be a terrible superhero.

I never pondered during my struggling phase that I should have become an engineer, as I knew that was not my life. I couldn’t have lived it. It would have been a very claustrophobic life.

I cant swim underwater. I am claustrophobic and I am scared of creepy crawlies.

I’ve fixed the toilet. And I’ve been crawling in claustrophobic places… you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.

It’s something I’ve enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I’m someone other than who I am. I’ve always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I’ve had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

In Jenny Offill’s remarkable first novel, ‘Last Things,’ 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

I think you tend to try, during the time you’ve got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total world. I mean, the sets were claustrophobic, and as soon as you were on there, you were right back into it.

It is a strange world, Oxford – quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

I avoid subways like the plague because I’m claustrophobic.

It’s very claustrophobic to live a life which is not really how you wanted to live. You are forcing yourself to be quiet and behave like someone you are not.

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you’re in charge of running a country, you’re under scrutiny all the time. That’s a trap.

I like stripper shoes. I like being tall because I’m claustrophobic.

I’m a bit claustrophobic, I don’t like crowds, I live by the sea – that’s what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

I don’t get claustrophobic.

Playing the same role over and over makes me feel claustrophobic sometimes and smaller than I am.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

‘The Oath’ seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like ‘Everest.’ I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

I have a fear of heights and I’m claustrophobic.

New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there’s no hustle and bustle, no street life.

I think I’m a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

I’m not very good at being domesticated. I’ve tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic – the rituals and habits and patterns.

I am claustrophobic, I hate spiders, I don’t love snakes but I would take a snake over a spider and I couldn’t do a sky dive.