109 Movie Quotes about Anxiety (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

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.

71 It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is: Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms!

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

72 You still wake up sometimes, don't you? Wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

73 Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go home and have a heart attack.

John Travolta as Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction

74 Therefore, Ted's father's own fear of failure has caused him to make his son the embodiment of all of his own deepest anxieties about himself. And, hence, his aggression transference onto Ted.

Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

75 Don't let your knees rattle. It picks up on the mike.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

76 That gun makes me nervous, mister. I'm not gonna be a hero. You can put the gun away.

Frank Sinatra as John Baron in Suddenly (1954)

77 Hey, why your family act so mother_in' nervous, man?

Wood Harris in Paid in Full (2002)

78 I was so nervous, I became nauseous.

Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem in Coming to America (1988)

79 Panic's a pretty sight, isn't it?

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939)

80 Time's wasting, fatso. Stop shaking.

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)