Angst Quotes

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
Ryan Reynolds

Time, Insecurity, Put

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.
Rush Limbaugh

Leadership, Country, Why

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
Katy Perry

Humor, Sad, Cool

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
Robert Plant

Through, Kids, Three

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia

Real, Problem, Problems

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
Sylvester Stallone

Best, Regret, Regrets

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
Meg Ryan

Life, Good, Nothing

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
Natalie Imbruglia

Sad, Yourself, End

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Fiona Apple

Cool, Girl, Bad

I can be a bit grumpy. I'm full of angst, and hormones.
Nicholas Hoult

Full, Bit, Grumpy

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
Fred Durst

Music, Loved, Town

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
Rainn Wilson

Great, American, Show

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.
Rob Sheffield

Music, Teen, Rock

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
Nigella Lawson

Quiet, Full, Teenager

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
Paula Cole

Put, Memories, Childhood

It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
Zach Braff

School, Used, Getting

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.
Jamie Bell

Teen, While, Teenager

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.
Shailene Woodley

Through, Perfect, Possible

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.
Craig Kilborn

Fun, Young, Used

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
Nigel Lythgoe

Change, Live, Understand

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Positive, Anger, Big

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
Katherine Dunn

School, American, Tea

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
Michael Eisner

Change, Technology, Nothing

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.
Jim Broadbent

Else, Pale, Becomes

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.
Kurt Sutter

Character, Action, Taking

I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.
Sergey Brin

Young, Among, Mountains

To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.
Jane Lynch

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
Walton Goggins

Place, Youth, Anxiety

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
Matt Lucas

School, Comedy, Left

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
Avi Arad

Humor, Heart, Once

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