Nervous Quotes

I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

I talk too much when I'm nervous.

My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.

[Miss] Piggy was amazing, I was nervous because I wrote our opening. I wrote the song, wrote what we were going to do. And first I was hoping that they would approve it, because they're not playing.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

You have to. But I generally try - I'll creep in the back. I'll be outside. I'll pace around. I don't really get that nervous about whether people like [my films].

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

You can't control things by being nervous.

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

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.

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

I was way more nervous on the opening day of the Ryder Cup than the first round of any major. Every Ryder Cup match is like being in the last group on Sunday in a major.

I'm very Canadian. I want everyone to love me, and I just get nervous.

The advice I would give would be to know that it's ok and natural to be nervous. The key is to rehearse, always be yourself and don't be afraid to not be perfect as we all make mistakes.

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.

I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement.

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

When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have fun. I don't know why that is, but I like it.

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

Every single night I'm nervous.

The present tense made him nervous.

I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.

Sometimes you're so nervous about piloting something that you could probably just not empower others to finish what they're supposed to.

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

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.

I'm from Hollywood, I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.

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

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.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

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

If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

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

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

When I opened the door, Andrew was standing there like a remedy for heart palpitations. Or maybe he made them worse. It was hard to tell.

Could he hear my heart pounding?

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things

In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

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

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