109 Movie Quotes about Anxiety (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about anxiety, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

51 Why should I be nervous? It's your money, you're losing it. I'm only winning it.

Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley in Champagne for Caesar

52 You know, sometimes, guy gets the shakes so bad, you expect to see his teeth fall out.

Vincent Price as Professor Henry Jarrod in House of Wax (1953)

53 What are you afraid of? Nobody's asking you to have a baby.

Tony Curtis as Joe in Some Like It Hot

54 I've tried to make you realize all these stories that worry you are so much nonsense. But now I see it's not the stories. It's the fact that you believe them.

Kent Smith as Oliver Reed in Cat People (1942)

55 You know, some people think that being shy is a disease, you know, but it don't bother me none. -It don't bother me, either. -Then why'd I bother bringing it up, huh? 'Cause I'm dumb, that's why.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976)

56 He acted like a mine had gone off under his feet. I hadn't seen a guy look that scared since jump training.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

57 All right. Now tell me why you got drunk? -Because I couldn't get up and speak before people.

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers; Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

58 Ha ha ha! What's up? Are you scared? Stay inside, you'll still die.

Quote from Shaolin Plot (1977)

59 He is the unfortunate victim of one of the commoner phobias, but in an extreme form. He has an intense, and all-consuming horror of cats.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

60 We both got very scared, and I wasn't sure of what to do. So I thought this might be a good place for not being sure.

John Fiedler as Piglet in A Very Merry Pooh Year