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Nervous Quotes

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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I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.
Jason Biggs
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I was nervous about doing ‘Scottsboro Boys’ because I’m not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
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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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I think I’ve always been fine on stage – though I get nervous beforehand. But once I’m on stage, all of that goes out of the window.
5
I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstagesometimes I don’t even want to go on. But once I’m onstage I’m fine.
Alison Lohman
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I definitely get nervous about if I’m going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don’t enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight – I think that’s really stressful.
7
From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.
Lauren Tom
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I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
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I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.
10
A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don’t know what’s going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.
Glen Mazzara
11
Before getting on ‘The Voice,’ I was very critical and judgmental of people’s vocals. After getting on the show, I was so nervous, I realized my low notes were gone, so nerves do take a big toll on your voice.
12
Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other’s face and ending one’s career.
13
You’re always nervous about what critics say – about what anybody has to say, really.
14
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.
15
In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.
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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.
Barbara Barrie
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Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.
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I don’t particularly get nervous about anything.
Fabrice Muamba
19
Every time I’ve been around Beyonce, I get so nervous that I forget how to speak English.
20
It wasn’t like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I’d have done terribly.
Evanna Lynch
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To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
Johannes P. Muller
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If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.
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In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I’m talking to.
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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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One of my first interviews was Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Johnny Depp for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’ I was in eighth grade at the time, little teenybopper. I was so, so nervous. I just remember Johnny had an aura around him.
Karen Fukuhara
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If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there’s a knock at the door, then you’ve done something pretty terrific as a writer.
28
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.
29
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
30
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
31
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.
32
I’m kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I’m half asleep, but inside I’m going about 100 miles an hour.
33
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.
34
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won’t.
Alfred Korzybski
35
‘Daughter of Smoke and Bone‘ is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading ‘Strange the Dreamer.’ Of course, I shouldn’t have been worried because Laini Taylor immediately grabbed me by the proverbial lapels and refused to let me go.
36
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
Delmore Schwartz
37
I was very comfortable on the set of ‘Lost’. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the ‘Lost’ episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.
Hiroyuki Sanada
38
I don’t really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.
Logan Henderson
39
If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
40
If you say you’ve had a nervous breakdown or things aren’t right mentally, people run away from you. They think you’re from ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo‘s Nest,’ you know.
41
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.
42
It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we’d do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.
43
My entire pregnancy with Major, I was nervous about enduring another long labor.
44
As an actor, you’re always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
45
I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She’s like a dork, personally. She’s just really, really fun.
46
I always get nervous. It’s usually a good thing. I worry about the nights that I’m not nervous, actually.
47
Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.
48
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
49
I get really nervous when people are like, ‘I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!’ Genuinely, my cheeks get red.
50
I was a little nervous at my first match, but I think I did OK. I went home after the match and watched the tape of it over and over. I wanted to do it again.
51
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
52
I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records – I always get excited.
53
I suffer from stage fright, so I blabber on stage and stop midway through my performances. I cannot even write a cheque, as it makes me nervous. Being around people makes me nervous. But I’m very comfortable in front of the camera, and this I realised many films later.
54
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.
55
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.
56
China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
57
I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there’s $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she’ll get another paycheck. I have no idea.
58
We human beings get nervous if we don’t know what’s going on. It’s the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.
59
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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Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
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There was a lot of passion with Klopp, I felt that most in the dressing room before games. He always had a big smile. He hugged every player. I loved his attitude – he was never nervous. He gave us confidence.
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I’m a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I’m home and haven‘t done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling.
63
I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing – he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous – any athlete who tells you they’re not nervous isn’t telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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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?’
Richard Ayoade
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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.
67
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
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As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
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I don’t understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
70
I was very nervous as a child and had stage fright.
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Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.
Jenny Lawson
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The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.
73
Being unprepared makes me nervous. I’m old-fashioned show folk.
74
My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.
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I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right.
76
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.
77
I’m nervous, but once I get a guitar on and start a song, after the first few seconds, I can feel it ease. I don’t have to worry about anything other than the music.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
79
I’m always nervous when I start a new picture.
Lana Turner
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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.
81
I don’t get nervous when I’m directing a play. It’s not like acting.
82
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.
83
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
84
I didn’t only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn’t work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
85
I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.
86
‘The Lego Movie’ did better than we could possibly have imagined. We were very nervous that people would discount it because it is called ‘The Lego Movie.’
87
I’m kind of ready for anything. I don’t really get nervous, and I’m not the type of person who gets worried about a game. I just play the game, and I enjoy it.
88
I don’t want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
89
My inspiration is endless; I can’t define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I’m taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I’ll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
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It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.
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If I was to get nervous, then I’m wasting my energy.
92
I’m a little bit nervous for us with all of this electronically generated new hyper-space that we’ve moved into, where not only people but also economies and systems, like banking, are left to zeros and ones. I want to be more than a zero or one.
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Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.
Red Buttons
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
95
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 definitely don’t have a problem doing sex scenes, but I tend to like to do things that initially make me feel a bit nervous. I don’t think you can really grow at any job unless you do things that freak you out.
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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.
99
I get a little upset, yeah, if a year goes by and I don’t get a script. Thank God I have other interests that keep me from becoming a nervous wreck.
100
If I’m not nervous, I’m nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.
101
I get nervous even guesting on other people’s shows.
102
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.
103
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.
104
I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn’t do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
105
There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.
Lauren Stamile
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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.
Torrie Wilson
107
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word… but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
108
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.
109
I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It’s just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
Cameron van der Burgh
110
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.
111
I’m always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I’m very careful.
112
The day that you walk out in front of 30,000 people and don’t get nervous is probably the day to give it up. It’s inspiring to be a little terrified.
113
I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.
114
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.
115
When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I’m trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking ‘Star Trek‘ to someone who’s talking ‘Star Wars.’ Anyway, it doesn’t work out usually when I ‘try’ to be funny.
116
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O’Hara.
117
I always get less nervous when we get into rehearsals because it just gives me a better idea of how it’s gonna go.
118
I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can’t stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.
119
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.
120
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.
Brenda Blethyn
121
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.
122
Being in a Grand Slam, doesn’t matter what you did before, it’s always nervous and excitement.
123
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
Nafisa Joseph
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I’m nervous when taking part in any movie.
125
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.
126
I was definitely not the cocky kid. I was probably on the other end of the spectrum – I was quiet. I remember a time when there was a skills competition, and I think I was five, and I was so nervous to even compete that I chose not to do the skating part.
127
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.
Carolina Kostner
128
I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.
129
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so – not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn’t nervous.
Carlos Alazraqui
130
In general, I’m pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.
Tyler Hilton
131
Actually I did not hold the baby immediately because I was not confident of myself. I was initially nervous to hold him, so I had to wait for a few days before I could a feel of him.
132
I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.
133
Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do – that’s the part I’m nervous about.
134
I get nervous all the time. Both on and off stage. You just hope it turns into adrenaline.
135
You’re always nervous before a fight.
136
Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They’ve practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The military aggression gets everybody nervous.
137
I sweat a lot because I get really nervous.
138
I get very nervous about not being around the office.
Arash Ferdowsi
139
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.
140
I don’t know, I think, in times where I’m really nervous, and I’m really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.
141
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren’t of course.
142
My last audition for ‘Baby Driver,’ I had to meet with Jon Hamm and go through the scenes. I was a bit nervous: ‘What if Jon Hamm dislikes me? This is the end.’ I also watched ‘Mad Men‘ religiously, so that didn’t help with my nerves.
143
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.
144
I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.
145
Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision.
Justin Halpern
146
They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.
147
I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.
148
I don’t really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that’s when I start getting nervous.
149
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.
150
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.
151
Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
152
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.
Natalia Dyer
153
Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute.
154
Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
155
With silly stuff, it’s seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it’s because I’m nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.
156
I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
157
I can’t say I don’t get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
158
It’s my first presenting role so I’ll be nervous, but it’s going to be great fun. I can’t wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.
Nicole Appleton
159
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.
160
I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.
161
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.
162
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.
Margaux Hemingway
163
If I’m nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it’s playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.
164
When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it’s not fear.
165
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Thomas de Quincey
166
I attempt to surf. I’m not as good as anyone else in the water. I’m more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!
Olesya Rulin
167
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.
168
I have the most nervous stomach in the world.
169
The forward bend really relaxes the nervous system and brings blood flow back to the brain.
170
I always get nervous when I watch what I’m in. Very self-critical.
171
No one knows what they’re doing. I remember going into an interview with a big star and I was nervous. Then I realised they were more nervous. I realised I was the one with the power because I was the one asking the questions.
172
I’m not nervous standing with anyone.
173
I’m nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
Bernhard Langer
174
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.
175
I had kissed a girl in the second season of ‘Community,’ but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling’s teeth out.
176
It’s the Masters. If that doesn’t get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don’t know what does.
177
With such riches as I have in life, you’re always nervous. Being Irish, you’re waiting for something to knock it sideways.
178
The one I have the most angst towards would be YouTube. We had an opportunity to invest, and I just got nervous about the media industry‘s response to the unlicensed content on the site.
Peter Fenton
179
I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
180
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?
Randy Johnson
181
With a suit, even if you’re having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you’re in charge.
182
I’m scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I’ve thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don’t like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.
183
I was a scared kid… I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else’s lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
184
I think I’m nervous to sign on to any job.
185
I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.
186
I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.
187
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’m taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
Natasha Hamilton
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I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I’ve never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman – she’s really my only idol. It’s going to be a big stretch – certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.
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I was so nervous on the night of my honeymoon, I put my pants to bed, and I hung over a chair.
Bobby Heenan
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I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I’m nervous about what I’m doing.
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It hasn’t always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was so nervous. But as I got more experienced, I had to choose between fight and flight – and I’ve fought every time.
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
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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.
Greta Garbo
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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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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don’t know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
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The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don’t enjoy the echo. I’m no sell out. Literally.
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
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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 stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare – about work, anyway – I always take that as a really good sign.
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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.
Allan Hamilton
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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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The only thing I’m nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven’t seen.
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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.
Gary Clark, Jr.
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Whenever we feel stressed out, that’s a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.
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Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn’t nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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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.
Dave Haywood
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The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 – it was at my guitar school’s showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.
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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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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one’s nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
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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 was nervous. I was thinking, ‘Gee, he’s Ralph Fiennes. What an amazing actor, and I can have this scene with him.’ But I enjoyed it, you know. That’s what I got into acting to do – to push myself and see if I can do these things.
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Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn’t written that many songs before.
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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.
Chen Long
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I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.
Adam Lamberg
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I became famous so quickly and so young – it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
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As I get older, I’m slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you’ll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.
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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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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
Randal Kleiser
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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 get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I’m nervous for them.
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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.
Dan Rosensweig
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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
Dan Hawkins
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Earl Wilson
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There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I’m unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves are good. I try and embrace all those things. I try and embrace the times where I’m not sure of myself or I’m like, ‘Is this going to work? Is this going to land?’
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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.
Charlotte Church
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After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn’t know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.
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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!
Ali Landry
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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.
DJ Qualls
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I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn’t cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.
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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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I don’t really get nervous in front of people. I kind of walk into every situation like I’m walking in to meet my peers, and they either like me or not.
Nico Tortorella
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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.
Conor Maynard
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I play banjo, and in Britain, it’s easy to get away with playing banjo because you don’t often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you’re a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
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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.
Kenny Hickey
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Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor
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I’m from Hollywood; I’m too dumb to be nervous about New York.
Yvonne De Carlo
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I’d be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.
Webb Simpson
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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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The uneven bars make me especially nervous because when you stop training, you lose sense of where the bar is going to be.
Sunisa Lee
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I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn’t even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.
Trevor Donovan
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That’s a curious paradox that I don’t think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it’s not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
Jacqueline McKenzie
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There are times when I do feel very nervous when I start a film. And I feel very nervous before the release. I do get stuck in some scenes, but that’s very natural and human. It happens to all the artistes in the world.
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I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.
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You can’t be nervous when you know your steps.
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I’m not even Indian-American: I’m Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a nose pin and talk in an accent like Apu from ‘The Simpsons.’ I was nervous because I wasn’t sure if America was ready for a lead that looked like me.
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I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I’m a huge fan of.
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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 got Jacob‘s Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn’t allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I’d be, ‘out of there.’
Elizabeth Pena
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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.
Michael Aspel
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If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they’d have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.
Chris Morris
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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.
Heather O’Reilly
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Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
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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.
Rich Little
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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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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I’m in, I can take the reins and go. It’s just the initial approach I’m really bad at.
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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.
Jack Harbaugh
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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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North Korean defectors who speak out against the regime always feel nervous. We never know what the North Korean government is planning. It’s really difficult for us to show our faces and speak out, but we feel obligated to do something to inform people about the ongoing tragedy inside North Korea.
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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.
Jonathan Knight
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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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Now I’m instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.
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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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I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I’m so nervous and obsessed. I’m just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I’m really tense.
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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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I mean, I can cook, but I’d get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.
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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.
Jonathan Lipnicki
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I don’t have the most confidence in the world, and I’d venture to say most women in comedy don’t come from a place of, ‘Oh, I’m fabulous!’ She’s just as nervous as you are. So if you’re trying to score with a funny girl, laugh at her jokes and tell her how hilarious she is.
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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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Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.
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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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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. ‘The Word Spy‘ is all about diving in and playing with words.
Ursula Dubosarsky
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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.
O’Shea Jackson, Jr.
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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 still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.
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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 remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.
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I’ve become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
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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.
325
Especially when I’m nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
326
Of course you’re nervous going into a final.
Li Na
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I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.
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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 trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I’ll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
332
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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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers
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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.
Hasan M. Elahi
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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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Being undefined somewhat makes me nervous, but what I do know is I’m 100 percent confident in who Charlotte is.
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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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If you can’t relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you’re too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.
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I think women are usually a little bit nervous about wearing white denim.
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Luckily, one of the perks of being an Angel is that I don’t have to go to casting. It’s so nerve-wracking – even the girls who have been in the show year after year still get nervous. The show is seen around the world, so it’s a huge honor to be selected.
343
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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If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, ‘He was a nice guy‘ or, ‘He was occasionally decent‘ or, ‘Mike wasn’t as bad as a lot of people.’
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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.
Gary Clark, Jr.
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What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
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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.
350
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.
351
I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn’t.
352
I get very antsy and nervous if I don’t know what the next job is.
353
Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
Randy Johnson
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
Yannick Noah
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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.
356
I was quite nervous about meeting William‘s father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn’t have gone easier really for me.
357
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.
Paul Horn
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It’s funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
Julie Benz
360
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.
362
I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actualSNL‘ stage. Looking back on it, I can’t believe that I wasn’t more nervous.
363
For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I’m always a little bit nervous.
364
I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.
365
The word ‘album‘ makes you nervous, especially ‘debut album.’
366
Most nervous I’ve ever been is probably the 2007 Walker Cup. I was a little boy playing with these 8 or 9 other guys that were the best amateurs in the country.
367
No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.
368
I myself get nervous when I write something on social media. I make sure I don’t write anything wrong.
369
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’m definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I’ve been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn’t have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it’s not going to Broadway; it’s just a different city.
371
Now, I don’t know about my peers, but I get nervous – okay, I genuinely freak out – when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That’s for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.
372
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.
373
I’m a very nervous, shy person.
374
It was a struggle to find myself. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There were too many defeats. I finally admitted defeat and went into therapy.
375
I am a little nervous with strangers. But I’m not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.
376
You have to be as strong when things go wrong, but I don’t get nervous.
377
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.
378
I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I’ve learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive – and it seems to be working for me.
Joel Parkinson
379
Sometimes I have a nervous breakdown over my suitcase – over socks – because your brain just goes, ‘I just can’t pack again. I can’t.’ You’re looking at your suitcase going, ‘I’m in five countries in two weeks, and it’s four different seasons.’ That’s when my brain melts.
380
I don’t really get nervous.
381
I’m getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
382
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.
383
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
Toyin Odutola
384
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.
Vinny Testaverde
385
I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
386
We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.
387
Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.
388
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.
389
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!
390
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
391
American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
392
I’m a neurotic Jew who doesn’t want loans. I can’t even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.
Duff Goldman
393
It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I’m possessed.
394
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.
395
I’m nervous and awkward.
396
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.
397
I’m not a very good lover. I’m so nervous about my sexuality.
398
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.
399
I get nervous for everything – literally everything.
400
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.
Sherman Hemsley
401
I’m always nervous when I perform anyway.
402
It’s totally different. I usually don’t tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don’t tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.
403
Because I’m a writer, I’m really good at being nervous.
404
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.
405
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.
406
People get so stressed and nervous and mad.
Kim Clijsters
407
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.
Cory Michael Smith
408
My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It’s very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don’t know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.
409
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.
410
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
411
I was a nervous flyer before, but now I’ve gotten used to it.
412
I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.
Thia Megia
413
I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.
Harry Nilsson
414
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.
415
I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.
416
The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I’ve always wanted to do. It’s why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn’t feel that way if I were nervous onstage.
417
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.
418
I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.
419
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.
420
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
421
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.
John Abercrombie
422
I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.
423
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read – that makes an ally of the reader – is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it – and all of it.
424
When I step out onto the ice to compete ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ I don’t feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it’s very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.
425
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.
426
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.
427
Grip pressure – not mechanical flaws – is the biggest factor when you’re nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you’ll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.
428
I have this rubber band that I have all the time on my wrist, and sometimes when I get nervous or anxious, I’ll do this twiddle thing with my finger and I’ll snap the rubber band. A lot of people use rubber bands to cope with things like anxiety and depression and addiction.
429
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.
430
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.
431
Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don’t like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That’s why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.
432
But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.
433
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.
434
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.
435
Anyone who tells you they’re not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I’m afraid they’re not telling you the whole story.
436
Sometimes when I’m nervous, that’s when the most interesting things happen.
437
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.
438
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.
439
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.
440
I’m very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That’s my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that’s in real womanlike situations, where it’s romanticized, I’m a little nervous about it.
441
I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.
442
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.
443
With the rise of social media, it has given me an opportunity and a platform to have a voice as a blogger and as an activist, but it has also made me nervous that I might become a meme or a viral sensation, all without my consent.
444
I pull my eyelashes when I’m tired or thinking – it’s a nervous thing.
445
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.’
446
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.
447
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.
448
When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
449
I can’t do talk shows, I don’t do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.
Devon Sawa
450
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.
Lydia Ko
451
I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don’t get nervous, you know?
Kenny Hickey
452
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.
453
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.
Bill Cosby
454
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.
455
I don’t ever recall being nervous before performing because I’ve already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.
456
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.
457
I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.
Marcel Carne
458
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.
Dan Millman
459
Grip pressure – not mechanical flaws – is the biggest factor when you’re nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you’ll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.
460
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.
461
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.
Jenna-Louise Coleman
462
I get really nervous, really anxious.
463
Probably more than any other movie we’ve made here at Pixar, ‘Up’ was the one we were the most nervous about.
464
I don’t mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
Eugene Ormandy
465
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
466
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.
467
There were two auditions for ‘The Social Network,’ one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, ‘Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?’
468
The dog can only become what’s in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.
469
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.
470
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.
471
I’m actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?
472
I was quite nervous in my first week at Barcelona, but after that, I was relaxed.
473
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.
474
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.
475
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.
476
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
477
I never want to change. I get nervous about that… people thinking that I’ve changed just because the circumstances of my life have.
478
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
479
I get nervous cooking for our little house party barbecues. I’m very insecure with my cooking. I tend to throw things away that I’m scared of serving, even though they might be great.
480
I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.
481
While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.
482
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.
483
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.
484
You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.
485
There’s an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don’t know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
486
The ‘Sistersphenomenon 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.
487
I get nervous about everything. I think there’s something wrong if you don’t get nervous.
488
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.
489
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
Michael Medved
490
Even if I’ve studied all there is to study, I get a nervous and twitchy feeling before the exam. Till I get the question paper I’m nervous. This somehow gives me a little bit extra when I’m on the field. I’m able to make decisions on the field just a bit quicker.
491
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.
492
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.
493
I’m not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don’t have time. I just don’t go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.
494
I love to be nervous before a scene.
495
As a part owner, I’m going to be not only an admirer… but a nervous wreck.
Roger Staubach
496
I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.
Dontrelle Willis
497
I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
498
It’s the only time that I’m ever nervous on stage, is when we’re doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can’t fix it.
499
I’m always shook up and nervous and I’ve got the hospital record to prove it.
500
The first event I vividly remember was competing at the Junior Olympics in Seattle, Washington. It was my first major competition outside of Texas, and I remember being very nervous. I could not control my nerves, and I threw a few fouls.
501
Whenever you give a shot, the nervous energy in your stomach is the key to that emotional breakdown, that kick that is needed to perform.
502
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.
Maurice Jarre
503
I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I’m a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.
504
I’d say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
505
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.
506
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.
507
I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
508
I’m a workaholic. Before long I’m traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
Eva Gabor
509
I think I’m always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.
510
Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun.
James Maslow
511
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
512
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.
513
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
514
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.
515
My early years as a ‘speaker‘ involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.
516
Every time before I go on stage, I’m nervous.
517
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.’
518
I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.
519
People I get the most star-struck by are people I’ve sort of grown up with watching. So, for example, working with Debby Ryan, when I first met her, I was a bit nervous and a bit star-struck because I had grown up watching her TV shows on the Disney Channel.
520
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.
521
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.
522
When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.
523
I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!
524
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.
525
I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.
526
People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.
527
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Learned Hand
528
Outside stimulation makes me nervous!
529
Even though I’ve got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin’ my pipes.
530
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.
Jordi Molla
531
If my mother hadn’t encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I’m doing something wrong.
532
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.
533
Interviews make me so nervous – I can’t get a sentence out of my mouth.
534
It is normal to be nervous.
James Galway
535
I always get nervous before a scene.
536
When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.
537
I’ve never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
538
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.
539
Every single night I’m nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
540
I don’t get into these petty things, KentuckyLouisville. To me, it’s nonsense… There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us… They’ve got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.
541
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
Norbert Wiener
542
When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.
Crystal Gayle
543
I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she’s a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
544
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.
545
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
546
There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.
547
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.
548
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.
549
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.
550
I’ve worked on really big budget movies as a designer – ‘Vanilla Sky,’ ‘Three Kings;’ I’ve been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous.
551
I don’t get nervous.
552
I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.
553
I love travelling with my laptop because I get a bit nervous if I can’t access my e-mails.
554
I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I’ll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I’m afraid that I’ll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.
555
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.
Namie Amuro
556
Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it’s bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date – or for the first few dates. I’m always too nervous he’ll kiss it off – if I’m lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.
557
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
Charles Scott Sherrington
558
People might not believe me if I say I get nervous, but I tend to practice constantly to show a balanced performance.
559
When there’s people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.
560
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.
561
I love tennis more than designing because it’s actually easier and I don’t get nearly as nervous.
562
I always get nervous when I’m performing at international shows.
IU
563
I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.
564
I’ve never followed a list in my life, and that’s probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.
565
When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.
566
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.
567
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.
568
My mom didn’t write, but she loved to read. She liked books ‘that made you a little nervous.’ Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.
Michael Easton
569
Venus told me the other day that champions don’t get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn’t get nervous and just do the best I can.
570
I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.
571
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.
Moran Atias
572
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.
573
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.
574
You’ve got to feel a little nervous when you first meet Spielberg. The guy’s an apparition.
575
There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.
576
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.
577
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.
578
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.
579
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I’m in, I can take the reins and go. It’s just the initial approach I’m really bad at.
580
I like a man who can come out and say he’s nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.
581
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.
582
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.
583
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.
Kresley Cole
584
I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone’s reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn’t in my immediate field of vision.
585
For any YouTuber, if you’re too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you’re putting out there isn’t authentic.
586
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.
587
If you’re making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
588
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.
589
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!
590
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.
591
I’ve thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.
Sarah Brady
592
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.
593
I hadn’t worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I’ve ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn’t have time to be nervous – it happened so quickly.
594
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man’s boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
595
I know what I’m missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I’m nervous.
596
I don’t have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.
597
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.
598
If you’re nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.
599
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.
600
People have nervous tics they don’t know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, ‘Is there something I’m doing?’ I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
601
Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.
602
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.
603
As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
604
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
Johannes P. Muller
605
I don’t like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.
606
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.
607
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.
Jason Mewes
608
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
609
I don’t sleep well. I’m a very nervous – by my nature – anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.
610
I don’t get nervous in any situation. There’s no such thing as nerves when you’re playing games.
611
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.
612
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.
613
I didn’t like the nervous tension of being a public person.
Andrew Denton
614
I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I’m nervous and I’m stressed.
615
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.
616
When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
Beau Mirchoff
617
I’ve always been full of nervous energy, but I’m not really as happy as I seem.
618
I’m an incurable optimist and a go-getter – it’s in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
619
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.
620
I am very benign-looking. I’m somewhat like a golden retriever: It’s not hard to look at me. I’m perfectly fine. It’s not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.
Elizabeth Mitchell
621
People might not believe me if I say I get nervous, but I tend to practice constantly to show a balanced performance.
622
I get nervous before every shoot. I’m really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, ‘I’m good; this is it.’
623
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.’
Shirley Henderson
624
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.
625
I’m nervous about our civic culture. I’m not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It’s certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers.
626
The good thing about being nervous is that you perform better.
627
I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast – especially Dave Foley – so I think I did a terrible job.
628
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.
629
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.
630
I’m incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of ‘Batman.’
631
I’m excited and nervous about every film; once I understand the medium fully, I’ll relax.
632
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.
633
My debut was in a final. I was not nervous. I scored a goal, and I won my first title. In all my debuts, I’ve always been able to score goals, and I have come to Madrid to stay and score many goals.
634
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
635
I can talk to execs very clearly, very plainly. I don’t get nervous in front of them anymore.
636
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.
637
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It’s like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
Pat Williams
638
In 2003, for my first Rumble, I was just as nervous then as I was 15 years later.
639
I don’t get nervous.
Danny Bautista
640
Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person.
641
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.
642
I’m a workaholic. Before long I’m traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
Eva Gabor
643
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.
Katharine Cornell
644
I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I’m so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he’s so nervous to meet my dad. It’s a head spin.
645
I haven’t been really nervous about a gig in a long time.
646
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn’t remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.
Andy Partridge
647
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.
649
I wouldn’t eat a 1,000-calorie bowl of spaghetti for dinner, but I’ve always loved pasta and think it’s a good addition to any meal and a great base for pretty much any vegetable. It’s also great when I have a nervous stomach before race day.
650
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.
Tom Smothers
651
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.
652
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.
653
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.
Mackenzie Crook
654
I once went on a date where the girl drove and so couldn’t drink. I was nervous, so drank quite a bit – it didn’t end amazingly. As much as I love movies, I think cinema dates can be weird because you essentially sit next to each other in silence for a couple of hours.
655
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.
658
I wasn’t for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
659
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.
660
The programs I do with my trainer are amazing for overall strength and have a major focus on building my core. We do a lot of unique exercises that shake up the nervous system, which builds my balance and propreception. That’s really important for my sport.
661
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.
662
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
663
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.
Charles Ray
664
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.
665
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it’s about not getting bored.
666
Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it’s blue skies and puffy clouds and time.
667
I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.
Jerry O’Connell
668
I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: ‘strength.’
669
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.
670
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.
672
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.
Lindsey Wixson
679
I’m never nervous around anyone, which I think is a real key to my success. I was never nervous around anyone!
Mariacarla Boscono
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.
681
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
682
I’m not a nervous flier. I realize it’s still the safest form of travel.
683
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.
684
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.
John Hewson
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.
Rachel Hunter
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.
690
I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
691
When I get nervous, I get word vomit.
Dreama Walker
692
I definitely want to act, but hosting is something that I am really enjoying. The first show I ever hosted was ‘Jhalak Dikhla Ja.’ I was super nervous then, but now I am very comfortable.
Mona Singh
693
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.
Lauren Hutton
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.
698
Eminem‘s ‘Lose Yourself’ is my go-to song to pump myself up if I’m having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
699
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.
700
When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn’t be great. So I asked around, ‘What do you think of this?’ That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.
701
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin‘ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
Billy Gibbons
702
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.
703
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.
Barry Sonnenfeld