Nervous Quotes

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

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
Daniel Dennett

Life, Home, Rock

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 have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
Ben Stiller

Work, Best, Energy

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
Liz Phair

Enjoy, Performing

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.
Tim Vine

Confidence, Laugh, Tell

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Courage, Understand, Why

I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Work, Time, Good

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
Jane Fonda

Divorce, Second, Breakdown

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
Rachel McAdams

Love, Wedding, Hate

What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
Rachel McAdams

Big, Worry, Makes

The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.
Jeffrey Kluger

Mind, Decision, Trying

I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
Gabrielle Union

Start, Within, Community

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
Shaquille O'Neal

Playing, Situation, Games

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Put, Around, Fat

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.
Marilu Henner

Control, Less, Prepared

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.
Kristen Bell

Girl, Real, Used

I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.
Serena Williams

Love, Actually, Tennis

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.
Etta James

Before, Onstage

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.
Adriana Lima

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.
Greta Garbo

Live, Tired, America

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Roald Dahl

Heart, Country, Nobody

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
Gary Numan

Famous, Stupid, Young

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.
Jarvis Cocker

Anyway, Perform

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
Eva Gabor

Alone, Long, Before

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.
Corey Haim

Hell, Started, Wreck

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
Danica Patrick

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.
David Sedaris

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

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
Justin Timberlake

Playing, Golf, Stage

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