Nervous Quotes

Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.
John Singleton

Time, Everything, Play

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
Abdallah II

May, Problem, Moment

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander

Truth, Sad, Makes

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.
Kim Clijsters

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.
John Hewson

Down, Give, Said

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.
Kaya Scodelario

Love, Find, Last

Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
Ja Rule

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.
Kim Basinger

Time, Business, Remember

I love to be nervous before a scene.
Kim Basinger

Love, Before, Scene

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.
Isabel Lucas

After, Acting, Hands

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.
Evanna Lynch

Done, Acting, Her

About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it.
Evanna Lynch

Everything, Two, Wrong

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
Bernard Sanders

Future, May, Happen

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.
Barry Sonnenfeld

Working, Big, Stars

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.
Deborah Ann Woll

Focus, Hard, Goal

I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.
Katie Cassidy

Character, Focus, Try

And if it's a boy, I will be really nervous because I have no idea what to do with a boy because I am a girl and I have a girl!
Ali Landry

Girl, Idea, Boy

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
Jacqueline McKenzie

Love, Before, Off

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
Michael Medved

American, Left, Behavior

Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun.
James Maslow

Fun, Find, Talk

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
Dana Hill

Reason, Felt, Top

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
Nafisa Joseph

Book, Thoughts, Eyes

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
Lydia Ko

Used, Getting, Media

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.
Duff Goldman

Balance, Credit, Carry

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.
Marcel Carne

Beginning, Hotel

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

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
Norbert Wiener

Past, Made, Decisions

I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.
Webb Simpson

Stupid, Jesus, Tough

I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist.
Birdy

Before, Play, After

Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.
John Hersey

Down, Die, Away

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