Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

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.

I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

I like finding things out beforehand, because I'm nervous in disposition, and I worry that if I don't do anything, then I'll turn up and I still won't really have a sense of it, and it might be too late. So I like to get things as organized as I possibly can in my own head, to apply myself to the work before arriving to a late-in-the-day rehearsal, or in extreme cases, the first day on set.

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

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.

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

I love to be nervous before a scene.

I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.

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.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.

I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

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.

I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.

I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.

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

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.

I met Pele once. I am not often nervous but in this moment I was shaking. He's a wonderful person.

I'm nervous... but I'm not going to fear what I'm about to do, I'm going to take it head on and I'm going to conquer it.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

I mean, we did feel nervous, starting out, but I wouldnt say it was hard. We just did what we loved and thankfully it worked out for the best.

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.

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

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.

I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

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

I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous about my being an actor.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

I talk too much when I'm nervous.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

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.