Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something." Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.

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!

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Whenever I feel nervous, I feel like I have to poop.

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.

When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.

When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day.

When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.'

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.

With acting, it's all about internalizing the character for me and doing all the preparation you can. So the day you first step into your wardrobe, you can walk like the person. That's really the moment where the light bulb goes off. You're nervous; any actor will tell you that. Robert De Niro will probably tell you the same thing. He may not want to share that with you, but he probably goes through it. That's why actors are so neurotic.

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

Women without men are usually nervous. ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.

Yeah, I'm nervous. I'm wearing heels in public for crying out loud.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.

You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly. "I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.

All we need to do is get those nervous butterflies in our stomachs flying in formation.

You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real.

Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating —but “shyness” is the historic word for it.

But Robin ...well, she’s OK. We really don’t have much in common, though. I get nervous around people who eat all the time.

Charlie?' 'Uh-huh?' 'Do you like me?' 'Uh-huh.' 'You know what I mean?' 'Uh-huh.' 'Are you nervous?' 'Uh-huh.' 'Don't be nervous.' 'Okay.

But the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I'm not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies or roller coasters. I didn't know precisely what I was afraid of, but it wasn't this.

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

He swallowed nervously, but in a schoolboy crush kind of way. She was so beautiful. He had been admiring her beauty for the past few days, but it never seemed right to act on it. Somehow, things felt more normal being in his home. It was like the past few days were just a crazy nightmare that had finally ended, except it didn’t. It was only on hold for a while, but it was long enough to act on his feelings. He wanted this woman badly. Everything about her was absolutely perfect!

Hmm.” Hell, he’d lost his voice. Maybe his capacity for thought. They were headed where his body had wanted her since the day they met. Blood surged to his groin, leaving his brain defenseless. “What’s that?” She rubbed a finger across his lower lip. “Do I make you nervous?” She threw off his equilibrium, but he could work with that since he was trained to adapt to new and dangerous situations. He licked his lips, letting his tongue brush the finger she still pressed against him. “I can handle you.” “Oh, sweetheart, I doubt it.

He hadn't been this nervous since the last disastrous night at the improv, and he firmly told himself to calm down as he blotted at the tablecloth, glancing upwards to see Emma wriggling out of her summer jacket, pushing her shoulders back and her chest forward in that way that women do without realising the ache they cause.

Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her trachea.

I feel as though I can chew up nails and spit out a barbed wire fence.

I raise my face to his, ready for the crush of his lips against mine, wanting to share more than these nervous breaths.

I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone.

I think it’s glorious to be nervous. Being nervous is great! How often do we get nervous on a daily basis? Being slightly nervous means you care, and you’re alive, and you’re taking some kind of risk. Hooray for being nervous! A friend told me to substitute the word ‘excitement’ for ‘nervous’. That way you acknowledge the physical feelings without putting a negative spin on things. So to answer your question, sometimes I still get so excited about ‘Update’ that I want to throw up