Nervous famous quotes

I'm nervous whenever I perform.
-- Adele

#Nervous

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
-- Al Alvarez

#Nervous #Poet #Preference

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
-- Alain de Botton

#Thinking #Ideas #Nervous

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
-- Alan Rickman

#Thinking #Actors #Nervous

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.
-- Alexa Von Tobel

#Fighting #Littles #Nervous

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Mistake #Women #Nervous

I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.
-- Alice Cooper

#Mean #Nervous #Mets

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Funny #Age #Nervous

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

#Stopping #Nervous #Starting

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
-- Andrew Denton

#Nervous #Tension #Persons

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.
-- Andy Gibb

#Nervous #Hell #Breakdown

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
-- Andy Murray

#Crowds #Nervous #Bigs

I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.
-- Anna Faris

#Good Love #Lovers #Nervous

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.
-- Anna Wintour

#Fashion #People #Nervous

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
-- Art Buchwald

#Want #Nervous #Breakdown

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
-- Arthur Koestler

#May #Hallucinations #Nervous

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Firsts #Nervous #Woody

Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Body #Nervous #Nervous System

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.
-- Bengie Molina

#Opportunity #League #Nervous

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
-- Bernhard Langer

#Play #Nervous #Masters

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Guy #Nervous

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
-- Bob Goff

#Past #Nervous #Our Future

This guy makes coffee nervous.
-- Bobby Heenan

#Coffee #Guy #Nervous

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
-- Bruce Forsyth

#Giving Up #Giving #Nervous

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.
-- Busy Philipps

#Noses #Sometimes #Nervous

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
-- Carl Rogers

#Nervous #Process #Stimulus

Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.
-- Cat Zingano

#Mma #Scared #Nervous

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Talking #Nervous

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous
-- Charles Clarke

#Problem #Nervous

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington

#Action #Study #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.
-- Charline Labonte

#Hockey #Nervous #Excited

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Thinking #Nervous #Sensitive

Sometimes when Im nervous, thats when the most interesting things happen.
-- Chelsea Peretti

#Interesting #Sometimes #Nervous

Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words
-- Chris Kamara

#Nervous #Tense

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.
-- Christina Aguilera

#Favorite Places #Goes On #Nervous

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Writing #Nervous #Tics

We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.
-- Claudio Ranieri

#Games #Play #Nervous

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

#Wrecks #Nervous #Hell

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.
-- Corin Nemec

#Actors #Nervous

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
-- Damien Hirst

#Greatness #Painting #Nervous

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.
-- Dan Rooney

#Nervous #Sand #Owners

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

#Nervous #Worst

Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.
-- Daniel D. Palmer

#Energy #Nervous #Volition

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
-- Daniel Dennett

#Earth #Nervous #Nervous System

One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote 'Can I kiss you?' on a Post-It and handed it to her. And it worked!
-- Dave Franco

#Girl #Kissing #Nervous

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
-- David Abram

#Ecosystems #Perception #Nervous

They're all... looking... a little... nervous right now
-- Davina McCall

#Littles #Nervous

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.
-- Deborah Grey

#Nasty #Nervous

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
-- Demi Moore

#Focus #Nervous #Make Me Happy

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.
-- Devon Sawa

#Fidgeting #Nervous #Get Real

Before every performance I feel nervous.
-- Diego Boneta

#Nervous #Feels #Performances

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
-- Donald Barthelme

#Thinking #Cities #Nervous

If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.
-- Donald Glover

#Nervous

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.
-- Dontrelle Willis

#Nervous

When I get nervous, I get word vomit.
-- Dreama Walker

#Nervous

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
-- Edward Dyson

#Disease #Nervous #Worst

I just said to myself, She's just like you, you know, she can be nervous
-- Elena Dementieva

#Nervous #Like You #Said

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
-- Eric Kandel

#Individuality #Nervous #Units

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
-- Fannie Hurst

#Hands #Icicles #Nervous

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
-- Frank Auerbach

#Degrees #Nervous #Process

The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.
-- Gabrielle Reece

#Golf #Nervous #About Yourself

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there’s $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she’ll get another paycheck. I have no idea,
-- Gaby Hoffmann

#Teacher #Ideas #Nervous

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
-- Galen

#Keys #Looks #Nervous

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.
-- Garth Stein

#Soul #Care #Nervous

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.
-- Gary Lutz

#Grace #Daze #Nervous

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
-- Georg Simmel

#Individuality #Nervous #Psychological

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
-- George Crumb

#Elements #Nervous #Rhythm

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
-- George Orwell

#Enemy #Nervous #Moments

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
-- Georges Bataille

#Love Is #Sick #Nervous

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Worry #Nervous #Things Happen

You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.
-- Guy Pearce

#Kind #Film #Nervous

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

#Nervous #Enough #Train

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
-- Hale Irwin

#Expectations #Littles #Nervous

I mean, we did feel nervous, starting out, but I wouldnt say it was hard. We just did what we loved and thankfully it worked out for the best.
-- Hayley Williams

#Mean #Nervous #Starting

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
-- Henry Adams

#Love #Disease #Nervous

I was very comfortable on the set of Lost. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the Lost episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.
-- Hiroyuki Sanada

#Fans #Nervous #Lost

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

#Stories #Nervous #Stage

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
-- Ivan Pavlov

#Lying #Discovery #Nervous

Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
-- Ja Rule

#Hands #Nervous

When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.
-- Jack Johnson

#Interviews #Nervous #Reason

I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.
-- Jack Johnson

#Feet #Nervous #Used

You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.
-- Jaclyn Moriarty

#Nervous #Weirdness

It is normal to be nervous.
-- James Galway

#Normal #Nervous

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.
-- Jamie Campbell Bower

#Nervous

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.
-- Jamie Campbell Bower

#Jobs #Thinking #Nervous

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

#Ties #Nervous

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.
-- Janeane Garofalo

#Jobs #Thinking #Nervous

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
-- Janet McTeer

#Nervous #Accents

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

#Nervous

I don't like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous
-- Jase Robertson

#Meat #Nervous #Stores

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.
-- Jason Aldean

#Awards #Tvs #Nervous

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
-- Jeff Koons

#Nervous

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.
-- Jenna Coleman

#People #Groups #Nervous

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.
-- Jenna Fischer

#Makeup #Dresses #Nervous

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

#Girl #Firsts #Nervous

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.
-- John C. Reilly

#Nervous #Old Fashioned #Shows

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.
-- John Gallagher, Jr.

#Events #Nervous #Mood

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
-- John Holmes

#Success #Nervous #Trouble

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
-- John von Neumann

#May #Language #Nervous

The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.
-- Johnny Ramone

#Play #Waiting #Nervous