Nervous Quotes

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
Pete Townshend

Off, Whatever, Until

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.
Maria Sharapova

Work, Live, Hard

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry Adams

Best, Broken, Matter

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
Emma Thompson

Life, Daily, Film

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.
Christina Ricci

Time, Happen, Adult

I'm never nervous.
Bono

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.
Jello Biafra

Life, Trying, Against

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.
Shaun White

Thinking, Start, Times

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.
Miley Cyrus

Before, Anxious, Concert

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
Jensen Ackles

Time, Bad, Around

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
Kelly Clarkson

School, Words, After

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

Life, Singing, National

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.
Sienna Miller

Powerful, Far, Taking

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father, Pretty, High

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
Fred Durst

Feeling, Why, Wish

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Thomas de Quincey

Though, Tea, Favorite

If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.
Amanda Seyfried

Before, Talk, Shows

I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
Loretta Lynn

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
Carl Lewis

Truth, Amazing, Focus

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
Kate Moss

Waiting, Small, Place

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
Amy Winehouse

Keep, Starting, Stopping

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.
Wentworth Miller

Time, Friday, Year

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

Play, Acting, Directing

Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.
Serena Williams

Best, Champions, Decided

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

Happy, Energy, Full

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

Newspaper, Vietnam, Hippie

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.
Sara Blakely

Time, Yourself, Before

I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.
Carrie Underwood

Person, General, Awkward

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