36 Movie Quotes about Social Anxiety (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

31 After what I've been through, I couldn't go to a concert. I couldn't even face the crowds. I couldn't sit through it with all those people.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

32 You needn't be nervous. All you have to remember is to be sincere.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

33 I need a list of all the possible negative outcomes on the first day at a new school.

Amy Poehler as Joy in Inside Out

34 They're your customary stage fright. Every prima donna gets it. Forget it. Forget it and get going.

Jimmy Durante as Knobby Walsh in Palooka (1934)

35 Well, everybody's a little nervous their first night in show business.

Clint Eastwood as Bronco Billy in Bronco Billy

36 Do I really have to go? Do I? There'll be all those people... -But it would hurt their feelings if you stayed at home. And besides, you must learn not to be afraid of people.

Rhoda Williams as Amy March; Betty Lou Gerson as Marmee March in Little Women (1950)