Nervous Quotes

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!
Jonathan Davis

Crazy, Around, Far

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
Shia LaBeouf

Work, Time, Respect

I'm never nervous.
Bono

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

Keep, Starting, Stopping

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

Life, Singing, National

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

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 get more anxious than nervous before a concert.
Miley Cyrus

Before, Anxious, Concert

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 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

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

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'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

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

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

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.
Amanda Seyfried

Before, Talk, Shows

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

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

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 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 was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.
Giada De Laurentiis

Fun, Last, Year

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

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

Play, Acting, Directing

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

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.
Nigel Farage

Health, School, Taking

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

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