Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 still get nervous sometimes before performing.

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

It is normal to be nervous.

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

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

I talk too much when I'm nervous.

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

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.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!

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.

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.

It's really exciting and also it makes me nervous, because I'm like, "Well, I figured out how to perform this episode, but what if I'm not as good at what they write for next episode?" But that's part of the challenge, and that's what, I hope, ultimately makes me a better actor.

It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us!

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

I was nervous during Radiohead, we thought that they would hate us. I think when we played in LA, one of the dudes from Entourage was in the audience, and that was kinda weird. If anyone would make me nervous it would be David Bowie, Neil Young, someone like that.

I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

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.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

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.

I will talk about it on Monday. I will answer every one of their questions. I always feel nervous when I have to go to court. This is like going to court. But I will be prepared.

Live in the moment. Feel everything you want to feel. And maybe have a couple of drinks if you're nervous, I guess.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

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.