Nervous Quotes

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.

I am too nervous to eat pie.

"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.

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

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.

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

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

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

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.

It is normal to be nervous.

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

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.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

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

Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a nervous breakdown. But he's just, "Yeah, I know. I know."

You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.

Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.

As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

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.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.

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

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

That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.

He smiles so much, I don't think he has a central nervous system.