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.

David D. Burns

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

Amanda Peet

Family Ways Way

If I could give my younger self some advice at that time, I'd tell her to enjoy the ride and don't be afraid to ask questions. I was quite responsible, uptight, and worried - I'd tell myself to chill out.

Amber Valletta

Time Younger Young

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

Anna Faris

Good Years Year

The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

Anne Reid

Way Uptight Up

I have the feeling we are the most uptight nation that ever walked this earth.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Art Walked Walk

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

Time USA Us

Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity than anyone I know, and integrity is more important than anything for a happy and successful life.

Charles Shaughnessy

Success Life Great

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

Dale Murphy

Good Attitude Uptight

I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.

Danielle Steel

You Very Us

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.

David D. Burns

Time Life Great

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

Diana Krall

Uptight Up Tight

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

Don Rickles

Art You Wit

I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

Drew Barrymore

Home Uptight Up

I'm quite relaxed - I know it's important not to get too uptight about things as a dancer, but when it came to my voice I realised that everything you eat, everything you drink affects it.

Francesca Hayward

You Voice Very

If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers.

George Harrison

Yourself Yours Your

It's fine to admit being nervous - after the event. But if you tell people you're uptight before the game, it can be like, 'That guy's got problems. We can't trust him.'

Gianluigi Buffon

Trust You Vent

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

Gilbert Arenas

Your You Want

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

Grant Show

Were Very Uptight

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

Iggy Pop

Music Us Uptight

After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

Jared Harris

Men Which Want

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people.

Jerry Leiber

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

Jim Norton

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

Jimmy Carr

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

John Glover

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

John Ridley

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Kris Kristofferson

I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.

Lamar Odom

There's a certain irreverent, populist 'realness' to Donald Trump's much-maligned Twitter account and off-the-cuff remarks to the press. His down-to-earth style is out of place in the Washington, D.C. swamp-world of uptight professional politicians, but that's exactly what makes him so appealing to regular people.

Lara Trump

Everything I know about the FBI came from movies! Right? The idea of these kind of uptight, conservative guys whose ties are tied too tight.

Leslie Hope

The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're going to become so uptight that we can't say nice things to each other, then we've had it!

Letitia Baldrige

I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.

Louis Tomlinson

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

Melvin Van Peebles

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

Miranda Otto

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Nikki Sixx

In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.

Pete Hamill

I think that what makes you cool at the end of the day is letting go, not being superficial or uptight, and being different.

Peyton List

We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.'

Phil Gingrey

Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

Randeep Hooda

It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

Rob McElhenney

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I definitely need a girl that has a good sense of humor because there are some girls that are just very uptight.

Romeo Santos

I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.

Scott Speedman

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.

Tom Ford

The work that I do doesn't make me feel uptight, It energises me.

Tony Robinson