Nervous Quotes - Page 28

• This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Science, Animal, Action

  "The Integrative Action of the Nervous System". Book by Charles Sherrington (p. 2), 1947.

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• My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

  Blair Underwood

  Birthday, Party, Son

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• I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Birthday, Children, Party

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• I was nervous starting off today. I was nervous because I felt like I was going to play good and shoot a good round. I was trying to calm myself down. This race is a long race. The eagle at two was helped, but I was trying not to be too eager.

  Jay Haas

  Play, Two, Race

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• I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

  Casey Affleck

  Thinking, Hair, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything.

  Christina Milian

  Fun, Thinking, Way

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• I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it.’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.’

  Naomi Watts

  Believe, Cutting, People

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• I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Thinking, Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining. I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody
  counter.

  Claire Danes

  Play, People, Challenges

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• They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.

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• I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.

  Anna Faris

  Good Love, Lovers, Sexuality

  "Faris names her number". pagesix.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?

  Tom Cruise

  People, What If, Admire

  "Whirl of the words", www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2005.

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

  Greta Garbo

  Tired, America, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm from Hollywood, I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

  Yvonne De Carlo

  New York, Dumb, Hollywood

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

  Julie Bowen

  New Year, Media, Years

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• I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small even Superman would be nervous. And you’re reading from the Bible. It’s not like you can just make something up and improvise. “A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. Uhhh. Dear Corinthians, … How was your weekend? Sure is hot here. Uh, tell Jesus ‘Hey.’ This is the word of the Lord.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Jesus, Reading, Weekend

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.169, Crown Archetype

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• I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine

  Alison Lohman

  Goes On, Want, Kind

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• As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

  Paul Scofield

  Risk, Bigger, Knows

  "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I’m quite flirtatious with anyone. Some people, because I’m playing a gay character, get quite nervous. And I have to reassure them. I’m like, ‘I’m not gay. I’m not coming on to you. Yet.’

  Rob James-Collier

  Character, Gay, People

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• When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.

  Lotte Lenya

  Crush, Fall, Cat

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• I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.

  Clea DuVall

  Real, Dark, Loner

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• It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

  Paula Deen

  School, Long, House

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• 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, Hell, Downers

  "Corey Haim: a career in clips" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2010.

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• A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

  Jason Ritter

  Dad, Would Be, Rooms

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• When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

  Chris Jericho

  Moving, Time To Move On, Littles

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