We’ve collected the best Nervous Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Jason Biggs, Colman Domingo, Mike Barnicle, Rita Ora, Alison Lohman. Use them as an inspiration.
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You used to be able to identify Sox fans in Yankee Stadium. They sat, slump-shouldered, with the same panicked expectation nervous motorists have looking in the rearview mirror at the 16-wheeler behind them on Interstate 95 near New Haven.
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From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.
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I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.
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It’s hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.
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I was fired from my first job in New York. I was just out of school, doing the Welsh play, ‘The Corn Is Green,’ at Equity Library Theater. I was studying with Uta Hagen, and I was really working well, but they got nervous. They wanted results right away. We had a run-through, and I wasn’t there yet, so they fired me.
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I don’t particularly get nervous about anything.
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I’m a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
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When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There’s all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don’t know how to do. I didn’t come from a film background.
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way… and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Moderates shouldn’t be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he’s laid it forward. He’s fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.
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I don’t really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.
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When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He’s not from a different country. He’s from a different planet.
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As an actor, you’re always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She’s like a dork, personally. She’s just really, really fun.
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I always get nervous. It’s usually a good thing. I worry about the nights that I’m not nervous, actually.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don’t like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.
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I’m kind of a nervous person in general. I’m socially awkward. I’m not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.
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If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn’t know what I was going to do.
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I find performing very difficult. It’s difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, ‘Well, why do it?’
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My dad was very excited about me doing ‘Laguna Beach,’ and he thought it was a great opportunity. My mom, however, living in Chicago, was a little nervous. I mean she had some reservations about MTV. I think there was a point in my life where I wasn’t even allowed to watch MTV!
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I ain’t never nervous. Never nervous.
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I was very nervous as a child and had stage fright.
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If I have done a role that’s taken me to a certain space emotionally, I won’t repeat that; I would rather do something now that taps into something else in my psyche… maybe something that makes me nervous.
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I’m always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something – because they want it to be good and they don’t want to let anyone down.
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I don’t get nervous when I’m directing a play. It’s not like acting.
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Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you’re unbelievably nervous and you think that you can’t get a word out, you will get the word out.
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If I was to get nervous, then I’m wasting my energy.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, ‘Wow, this is exciting, I’m a little bit nervous.’
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In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.
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I’m too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I’ll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
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If I’m not nervous, I’m nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.
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I get nervous even guesting on other people’s shows.
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With every film that you do, you’re always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it’s nerve wracking.
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I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can’t even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with.
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I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn’t do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
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I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.
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I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I’ve done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don’t think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.
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Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.
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The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns – in the little experience I have doing them – is that there’s no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.
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I always get less nervous when we get into rehearsals because it just gives me a better idea of how it’s gonna go.
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It’s very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because ‘Breaking Bad‘ is so special. It’s great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you’re doing good work.
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People say to me that I can’t be nervous because I’ve had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
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Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you’re right in the middle of one.
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I’m nervous when taking part in any movie.
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I don’t really get nervous about the people I’ll audition for, especially if it’s people I admire and want to work with: it actually makes me more excited.
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I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that’s because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can’t go out and say ‘Now, this is just my job.’ I really care.
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You’re always nervous before a fight.
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I sweat a lot because I get really nervous.
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I get very nervous about not being around the office.
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I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren’t of course.
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I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I’m on the stage, I’m just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.
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I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.
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Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King’s.
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Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it’s flattering. But I’m more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.
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When people approach me, it’s a vulnerable moment for everybody. You can see that sometimes people don’t quite know what to say to you, but they want to come up to you, and you can tell they’re nervous, and it’s really humbling and endearing.
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Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute.
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Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
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I can’t say I don’t get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
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Whenever I have a bad day, I tell everybody around me, ‘Just so guys know I am having a bad day and I am nervous about these things,’ and that makes all the difference.
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I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.
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People are nervous about their kids, and they’re worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they’re living in.
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I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities, and I was just a girl from Idaho.
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When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it’s not fear.
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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I’m always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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I have the most nervous stomach in the world.
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I always get nervous when I watch what I’m in. Very self-critical.
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I’m not nervous standing with anyone.
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I’m nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
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I’m lucky I have a fast metabolism… my whole family does… everyone’s got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.
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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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People who say they’re not nervous – I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you’ve done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?
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With a suit, even if you’re having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you’re in charge.
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I think I’m nervous to sign on to any job.
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I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.
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When I was younger, I was nervous and didn’t have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something – you know when you’re getting it right because you can hear. And you can hear if you’re not getting it right! I like to create interesting, weird characters, and they’re often best in comedies.
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I couldn’t write because my nervous system was so bad – I couldn’t even use a pen.
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When I came to know that I have to do a dance sequence with him, I was nervous. After all, he is Hrithik Roshan.
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I’m tired and nervous and I’m in America. Here you don’t know that you live.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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See I think we are nervous about every movie before it’s release, irrespective of who has directed the movie.
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I’ve had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I’m dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn’t know, though.
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I’ve read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don’t think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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In Giacometti’s work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he’s brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the ‘pure carving‘ side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.
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I’m always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn’t self-doubt, you seem aggressive.
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I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by – I’m going to be very nervous about the isolated patient’s mental status.
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of ‘daddied’ me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it’s the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
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I didn’t feel that I was ready to leave NXT. When I was called up to SmackDown, I was very nervous. I hadn’t done many of the things at NXT that I thought I was supposed to. I didn’t have a TakeOver match. I never held the title. I only had a few matches on NXT TV and to be called up and told, ‘Well, here you go!’
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Being nervous isn’t always the worst thing for me.
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You know, I’ve never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous – I think it’s the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
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I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.
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I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.
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There was nothing about ‘The Killing’ that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any… I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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We don’t get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.
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I was kind of nervous to put ‘Learning’ out: it’s a lot different. That’s who I am. I’m going to push the boundaries.
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I’m always very nervous about the word ‘dancer’ next to my name because anyone who’s really trained in dance will go, ‘This guy’s fudging so badly.’
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Any time I am nervous, I do a couple of yoga breaths, and I am fine.
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Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
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I’m never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I always pretend like I’m nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.
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For me, if I attack two or three times but didn’t get the point, then I would get nervous.
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
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Some people think that confidence is something that some people just have. Even though I may look confident strutting in a two-piece on a stage, there are days when I’m so nervous, or I feel like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know if I can do this.’
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I would like to work with my ideal type, Song Hye Kyo sunbae. Although she has an elegant and classic style, her charisma is also strong, and her acting talent is outstanding. If we act together, I think I could learn a lot from her. But I’d probably be nervous a lot of times.
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You’ve got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they’re afraid I’ll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.
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I’m nervous about moving away from my family. That’s one thing that I’m really scared of, but I feel like it’ll be good for me to live on my own for a bit and really knuckle down on what I really love and study.
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When a performer doesn’t get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
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I’m used to being nervous for shows in general.
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it’s just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don’t get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.
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You probably don’t hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.
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It was quite natural – the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience.
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I love auditioning. Since ‘The Notebook‘ and ‘Wedding Crashers,’ I don’t have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don’t audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I’ve never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
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And if it’s a boy, I will be really nervous because I have no idea what to do with a boy because I am a girl and I have a girl!
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I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn’t such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now… Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it’s like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.
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My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.
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The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin’ nervous it can make you feel.
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Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.
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Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
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I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word ‘socialist,’ get very, very nervous.
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You can’t be nervous when you know your steps.
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During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it’s about two thirds of the way through the book – I’m just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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When I begin shooting, I get nervous, as I am under pressure to do my job well.
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I’m more nervous about doing this than anything I’ve ever done before, because it is so prestigious.
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I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.
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In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I’d just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.
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In my everyday life I’m a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I’m doing something right.
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I don’t get nervous anymore. The first couple times I met Roger Federer, or Grigor Dimitrov, I was a little nervous. But now, it’s more natural.
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The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty – whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty – and that makes them a little nervous as well.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though – playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I’d be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don’t know why.
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If you become president, you’re guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
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I thought I’d get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn’t happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I’m dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don’t.
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You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they’re nervous about making the team, and you’re encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we’re having the same conversation. Only it’s about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.
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I was so nervous about ‘Kingsman,’ I can’t tell you, because when you do things different and fresh and fun and crazy, you don’t know how people are going to react.
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I was nervous before races. Every race was not perfect… Every morning when I woke up the first words weren’t always, ‘Oh, I’m so excited.’
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I’m always working. If I’m not in my studio I become quite nervous.
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I’m not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
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It’s much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they’re in a group, nobody can see what they’re writing. When you’re drawing, people get a little more nervous.
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Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you’re right in the middle of one.
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I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.
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Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people’s mediocrities. That’s precisely what ‘trends‘ are – a search for something ‘safe’ – and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
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Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, ‘I have to do this to win.’ I forget it is a competition.
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Want to fire up a liberal? Dare to suggest that a nervous looking young Middle Eastern man standing in a TSA line to get on an airplane should be scrutinized.
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Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like ‘You can do it, you can do it.’ And right before I hopped up there, I said, ‘I got this.’
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If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically – chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.
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When I meet people for the first time, I’m friendly but shy. I’m much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.
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I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.
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I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we – if this isn’t going well, you can’t say – well, you could say – let’s stop. Let’s start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
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I don’t really get nervous anymore unless there’s a big interview.
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What bothers me is our culture’s obsession with nudity. It shouldn’t be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There’s the worry about seeing one’s body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
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Being on set with my dad – that’s so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it’s the same element when you’re a kid – when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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Usually when I get nervous and don’t know how to prepare for something, I just don’t do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.
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I’m fine around other people’s feelings. It doesn’t make me nervous or anxious.
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I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
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Of course you’re nervous going into a final.
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When you work as a cinematographer, the actors look to you for reassurance. When you’re lighting them, they can never think you’re making an adjustment because of the way they look. If they are nervous, it impacts their performance, which impacts the story.
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I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
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I’m kind of emotionally dyslexic, and when I feel vulnerable or nervous, I laugh.
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I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But ‘The Great British Bake Off’ is a happy show; there is no bad language, and although we do have drama, we deal with it calmly.
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I’m nervous before all shows.
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To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.
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I don’t usually get nervous on the pitch because playing football is what I’ve done all my life.
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Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it.
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I’m a very law-abiding citizen, and I’ve never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!
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I don’t get the jitters and I don’t get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I’m gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I’m about to do a scene, I’ve already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.
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It’s not like I’m nervous of people seeing what I can or can’t do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.
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I failed public speaking in grade school, ’cause I was so nervous and scared.
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I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn’t wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.
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It’s funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It’s like being backstage and hoping you don’t trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
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I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn’t.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don’t know what the next job is.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But as long as I can play a little acoustic guitar backstage if I’m feeling nervous, so I don’t have to walk in there cold turkey, I’ll be fine.
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I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
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New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system.
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It’s funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
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If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of people remain unaware that they have been infected – sometimes for years, during which the bacterium can spread to the heart, nervous system, and brain.
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous – that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn’t.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I’m always a little bit nervous.
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No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.
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I myself get nervous when I write something on social media. I make sure I don’t write anything wrong.
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Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It’s about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?
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I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don’t ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.
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I’m a very nervous, shy person.
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You have to be as strong when things go wrong, but I don’t get nervous.
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Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I’m just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
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I don’t really get nervous.
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I’m getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
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I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don’t feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting.
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
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I’m excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn’t have high expectations, I wouldn’t come back here.
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I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
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It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.
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We’ve never played at this place before. This place is big, and I’m kinda nervous, so we’re going to make it feel small by pretending we’re in a… bedroom. We’ll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
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American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
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I can be completely spontaneous, which is absolutely wonderful. I don’t like it at the same time; no one wants to be nervous all the time, but that nervousness mixes with the excitement I feel on the stage, and it makes for a wonderful performance.
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I’m nervous and awkward.
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I’m kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there’s some point where it doesn’t allow for the complexity of things.
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I’ve been nervous a number of times. Your first start. Playing in the Super Bowl. Your first Super Bowl. Very nerve-racking. The one thing that you can always fall back on is that you know what you are doing. You know how to play the game.
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I get nervous for everything – literally everything.
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I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.
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I’m always nervous when I perform anyway.
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Because I’m a writer, I’m really good at being nervous.
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I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.
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Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I’m a character. I understand their point of view, but it’s difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I’m so nervous.
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People get so stressed and nervous and mad.
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‘Olive Kitteridge’ is the only thing that I’ve done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I’m so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.
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I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.
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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
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I was a nervous flyer before, but now I’ve gotten used to it.
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I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.
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I meet people who are famous, and it’s made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I’m nervous about that. I don’t want to become a celebrity.
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I like having conversations: you learn a lot about how other people think. If I’m myself and confident, I don’t get nervous easily. I try not to make other people uncomfortable – I think that’s a very arrogant thing to do.
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I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.
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On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.
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I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.
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You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had ‘nervous exhaustion‘? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, ‘Not yet!’ I pulled back.
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The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I’ve been dipped in. And I’m yelling out, ‘Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!’ And the next thing is paralysis.
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This has not changed: always like the first time, very, very nervous. But when the music begins, you are in the music, it’s a sort of transformation. Your feeling for the music is greater and has nothing to do with your nerves. You go out of yourself.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, ‘What if I can’t do this?’ But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.
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When I signed up for ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn’t want that.
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Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.
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Anyone who tells you they’re not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I’m afraid they’re not telling you the whole story.
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Sometimes when I’m nervous, that’s when the most interesting things happen.
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I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don’t see myself that way.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It’s the new ones that I haven’t identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body – at least by mine.
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I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.
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When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight.
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I pull my eyelashes when I’m tired or thinking – it’s a nervous thing.
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I’m always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I’m like, ‘I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.’
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I find, in film, we’re always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I’m quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I’m just really loving it and feeling great, and it’s all over.
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I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
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I can’t do talk shows, I don’t do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.
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I can’t say I’m not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I’m getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
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I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don’t get nervous, you know?
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Lots of people think I’m telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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People have all kinds of approaches when they come up to me. Some of them are so nervous: ‘You know, Mr. Cosby, you are my biggest fan!’ I am? Some of them even claim that I raised them.
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If I’m not nervous, if I don’t have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.
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Before games, people ask whether I get nervous. To be honest, I don’t get nervous, I just enjoy it. I am living the dream. When I was a kid I always wanted to play for my country and now I am here, I will enjoy it.
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I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.
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I have an almost religious zeal… not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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At first, I ain’t gon’ lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon’ think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.
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If I’m with a group of people, I’m okay, but actually I’m quite a nervous person if I’m just one-to-one with somebody.
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I get really nervous, really anxious.
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Probably more than any other movie we’ve made here at Pixar, ‘Up’ was the one we were the most nervous about.
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I don’t mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
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When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.
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Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn’t happen. I love him and his wife; they’re so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I’m actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?
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I was quite nervous in my first week at Barcelona, but after that, I was relaxed.
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As a player, sometimes you expect something to happen every time the ball is in the box. Every time somebody falls down, you get nervous because you have to watch your back because anything can happen.
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Growing up, if I had been given any advice – bad or good – I probably wouldn’t have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn’t shy, but I’d get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.
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There’s always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it’s good. It’s good. It’s been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great.
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I never want to change. I get nervous about that… people thinking that I’ve changed just because the circumstances of my life have.
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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
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I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.
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Anyone who sets foot into the ‘Watchmen‘ universe and isn’t just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I’ve always considered ‘Watchmen’ to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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My personality is a personality where I get really, really nervous and doubtful about almost everything, which is always a work in progress to build up my confidence a little bit more.
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The ‘Sisters‘ phenomenon was a byproduct of the ‘Trainwreck’ deal. I had to do the normal auditioning process for ‘Trainwreck’. I was extremely nervous for it, because you plan for this one event, and you get the opportunity.
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I get nervous about everything. I think there’s something wrong if you don’t get nervous.
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I don’t consider myself sexy. I’m kind of a nervous person in general. I’m socially awkward. I’m not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.
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Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
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I just sing the songs that people don’t expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I’m always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I love to be nervous before a scene.
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I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
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I’m always shook up and nervous and I’ve got the hospital record to prove it.
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Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.
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Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.
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I get terrified the first day I’m on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.
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I’m a workaholic. Before long I’m traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
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I think I’m always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.
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Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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Jane Fonda was at the top of my list of women to meet and the only time I felt nervous about interviewing someone. She is one of the most dynamic women I have ever had the honor of talking to.
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I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.
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My early years as a ‘speaker‘ involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.
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Every time before I go on stage, I’m nervous.
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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.’
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When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I’m just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, ‘If I get a chance, I’m going to score’ and that’s it.
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When I go to competitions, I don’t have so much confidence that I don’t worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.
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I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!
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Because I get nervous all the time. It’s weird but I think it’s fun and it’s refreshing. It’s always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything.
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I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.
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The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
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Outside stimulation makes me nervous!
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Even though I’ve got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin’ my pipes.
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I think that’s part of acting – to still get nervous and control that fear. I don’t know how to get rid of that.
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If my mother hadn’t encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I’m doing something wrong.
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When I took over ‘New Mutants,’ writing and drawing, and I figure this is a big deal, I’m 23, 22 at that time, and I am nervous because I’ve had nothing but success. And now they’re giving me the entire platform to create. And I figure, if I fall flat on my face here, it’s going to hurt. It’s going to set me back.
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Interviews make me so nervous – I can’t get a sentence out of my mouth.
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It is normal to be nervous.
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I always get nervous before a scene.
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When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.
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I’ve never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
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I don’t hate L.A., but I’m nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white omelets in the morning.
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Every single night I’m nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.
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I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she’s a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
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I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you’re going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun.
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I remember the first time I spoke to an editor. I thought I’d be sick, I was so nervous. The first time I spoke to a large group at a conference, I had the jitters for days beforehand.
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I still see myself on TV and think, ‘Oh my God, I’m on a television, and there are millions of people watching,’ and I get really nervous and embarrassed and insecure.
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I’m a firm believer that if you’re nervous before you go into a scene, it means the scene is going to be good, and it means you’re invested in making something special.
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I don’t get nervous.
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I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.
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I get even more nervous singing when everyone’s fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there’s people there listening to that, and if they’re moved by it, then I’m moved as well.
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People might not believe me if I say I get nervous, but I tend to practice constantly to show a balanced performance.
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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I love tennis more than designing because it’s actually easier and I don’t get nearly as nervous.
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I always get nervous when I’m performing at international shows.
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I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.
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When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.
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The Fall was super powerful to me because of their covers. They were intimidating. I bought ‘This Nation’s Saving Grace‘ when it came out in 1985, and there was something about it that made me nervous. It terrified me.
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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
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I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.
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Whenever there’s a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I’m going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.
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I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.
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The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
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You’ve got to feel a little nervous when you first meet Spielberg. The guy’s an apparition.
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There’s five cameras, I don’t know how many people in the audience… depending on where we’re taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.
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For, like, 98 percent of my life, I’m not nervous. But as soon as I’m nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.
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When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.
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I like a man who can come out and say he’s nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.
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I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I eventually served for seven years, I was so nervous to go and lobby my state legislators. Because I only had a master’s degree at the time in social work.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you’re engrossed in a story, but in the back of your mind you’re aware that there aren’t that many pages left. How will it end? Everything can’t be wrapped up! This can’t end! Then it does, and your heart seems to stop.
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After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can’t help it. I just, you know, I want it to be a good show, and I want people to get their money’s worth.
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I am pretty weird – as weird as in my videos. The only difference is Lilly is not a performer, and Superwoman is. So Superwoman is very fearless. You’ll never see her nervous. You’ll never see her sad. But Lilly is a human. She is the person behind Superwoman, who gets sad and tired sometimes.
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On stage, I’m always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It’s strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!
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I developed in my head that I’m never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it’s like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it’s more like concern. You’re concerned about the people – like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I’ve thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.
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Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.
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I don’t have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.
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There’s a certain weird something. I’m always nervous when I spar. You learn it’s going to hurt, but it’s only going to hurt for a little bit. It brings out the animal in you to an extent. You learn what you can take.
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If you’re nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.
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Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.
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I’m always nervous doing auditions – to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it’s for a part that you would really love to play.
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
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I don’t like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.
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If you’re public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you’re nervous about a date and thinking, ‘I’m gonna be a dork,’ picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.
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After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn’t nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.
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I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
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I don’t get nervous in any situation. There’s no such thing as nerves when you’re playing games.
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When I left Planned Parenthood, I was extremely nervous. I was immediately thrown into the media spotlight, and I had no idea what it was going to be like to be a public figure in the pro-life movement.
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I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria’s Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident – that made me feel very comfortable.
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I didn’t like the nervous tension of being a public person.
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I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I’m nervous and I’m stressed.
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Being on the stage is the one place I don’t get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I’m up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It’s like a dream land.
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I’ve always been full of nervous energy, but I’m not really as happy as I seem.
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When we first started ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ I would get incredibly nervous because it’s such a big show and I was just out of graduate school. I’d come in and have this huge responsibility for the one line that everyone hopes will bring down the house.
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People might not believe me if I say I get nervous, but I tend to practice constantly to show a balanced performance.
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I’m always nervous taking on a period role because it’s difficult to research – you can’t observe it, go out and see it. But it’s satisfying because eventually you think, ‘I got there.’
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don’t know if I’ve ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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The good thing about being nervous is that you perform better.
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My family were really happy for me that I’m going to such a big club as Manchester United. They definitely were a bit nervous because of my high price, but I’m going to stay focused on proving my worth.
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Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as ‘Scott Bakoola.’ Not a good sign. I also didn’t get the show.
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I’m excited and nervous about every film; once I understand the medium fully, I’ll relax.
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I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote ‘Wuthering Heights,’ I told my boyfriend beforehand ‘I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.’ Actually once I was there, it was fine.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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I can talk to execs very clearly, very plainly. I don’t get nervous in front of them anymore.
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Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It’s like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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In 2003, for my first Rumble, I was just as nervous then as I was 15 years later.
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I don’t get nervous.
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Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person.
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Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called ‘Retrospect For Life,’ which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N’bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.
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I’m a workaholic. Before long I’m traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
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I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don’t think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy – beginning at 4 o’clock any afternoon.
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I haven’t been really nervous about a gig in a long time.
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I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.
648
I think I’m a nervous laugher. Like, when you’re in a situation that you don’t know what’s going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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I found out that I couldn’t have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn’t work out. My mind, my body wouldn’t let me.
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It was so much fun to work with the cast on ‘School of Rock’. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you’re not sure how it’s going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, ‘Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.’ It’s the biggest rush ever.
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I’d like to go back to standup. I don’t like to think I’ve done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It’s a great buzz when it goes well.
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Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep – that’s when I get to spin. But you’re not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can’t enter the room when you’re auditioning – unless it’s part of the character.
656
Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.
657
I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.
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I don’t really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There’s no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it’s out of your hands after that.
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it’s shown, and I hate my openings.
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The two moments that I felt the most nervous in my entire life were when I first had reading rehearsal for ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’ and when I was at the Academy Awards ceremony.
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I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.
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I used to get very nervous before a concert. It’s okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it’s just you… yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.
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Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
671
So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.
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It was really good working with Paresh Rawal. I was nervous at first because he is such a big star and I love his performances, but the initial nervousness went away once I got to know him. He is a very simple and hardworking man.
673
I get kinda nervous before every show.
674
Working with Christopher Plummer, I mean, he’s a legend. I was so, so nervous even meeting him, but he made me feel comfortable, and that helped me tremendously.
675
It’s a relentless regime with ‘Misfits.’ I’m actually a little bit nervous of it, because I know it’s going to be so tough to film, but we have a good crack at it.
676
Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn’t really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He’s a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
677
There’s a lot of pressure on a film set that’s more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you’re nervous about what’s going to happen next week.
678
Being nervous is a waste of time.
679
I’m never nervous around anyone, which I think is a real key to my success. I was never nervous around anyone!
680
I started singing in my church choir, and then when I got to middle school, I had the coolest musical theatre director, and we actually did ‘The Wiz’ in seventh grade, and I was Addaperle, and my grandma was like, ‘Why didn’t you audition for Dorothy?’ But I was too nervous for that.
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I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five consecutive hits in 1999 have mellowed me in many ways.
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I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I’ve been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you’re down to give you a kick.
685
In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I’ve ever been on a golf course.
686
I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that ‘gatekeepers‘ make me terrified.
687
While I felt like we potentially had something really huge in ‘Gotham,’ you’re always nervous that it won’t live up.
688
I am a very open person, and I’m always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I’m being judged. And it’s funny that I should feel that way.
689
There is a need to be the best you can be. You can’t panic; you concentrate. When I run up to the hurdles, I’m very nervous, but I’ll tend to think about technical things to keep my mind focused.
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When I get nervous, I get word vomit.
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I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough – but I don’t think he’s presidential. I think he’s incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I’m nervous as an American.
694
The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.
695
Girls come up to me and start crying. Or they’re so nervous, they are shaking. Some have tried to sneak grabs of my abs and my butt!
696
Ben Hopkins is a very nervous, neurotic kind of person who is afraid of not being liked by people all the time. But, Monster-Me doesn’t know who those people even are.
697
I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn’t much of a stretch.
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‘Gossip Girl’ was an adaptation that, although very different from a Marvel property, had a vocal fan base. On that show, we started off very nervous about making any changes from the book. As we got our sea legs underneath us, we became more bold.
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I don’t get nervous before the match. I try to act the same and stay normal right before entrance. I don’t want to do anything special, so I want to act normal before a match.
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I’m nervous the first few songs, and then I’m like, ‘I got this audience. I’m ready!’
704
Kids are smart: don’t underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don’t even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.
705
The cool thing is, I was a little nervous about how they were going to handle Black Panther in his own movie, but then when I saw ‘Civil War‘ and just the perfect way they handled him in that movie, it made me even more excited about a Black Panther film.
706
And I’m supposed to grab her and kiss her and she’s supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.
707
Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he’s a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.
