Nervous Quotes

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

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.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

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.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

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.

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.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

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.

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.

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.

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

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.

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.