Nervous Quotes

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.

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

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It’s conscious.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

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!

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

I think women are usually a little bit nervous about wearing white denim. There are rules associated, body issues, all of those things.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

I don't really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I was being myself.

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

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.

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

I don't like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

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

I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

I am too nervous to eat pie.