Nervous Quotes - Page 8

• I talk too much when I'm nervous.

  Suzanne Shaw

  Too Much

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• Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

  People, Cooking, Irritated

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• I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

  Mel Brooks

  Blood, Sugar, Imbalance

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• The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.

  George Harrison

  People, Giving, Scream

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• The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

  Roger Federer

  Play, Tennis, Important

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• I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

  Derek Jeter

  Lying, Long, Guy

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• Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

  Joey Harrington

  Football, Creativity, Skills

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• I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.

  Cliff Lee

  League, Bigs

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• When I first started, I was really nervous. You could hear my voice quiver. So I started drinking a bit and that helped. A lot of entertainers have a few drinks before going onstage and don't overdo it. Me, it turned into a bigger habit. But I stopped that. I was getting older, and I was thinking about my kids. There's enough roadblocks out there without throwing in more yourself.

  Tim McGraw

  Drinking, Kids, Thinking

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• Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

  Martin Clunes

  Art, Suffering, Flatulence

  "Martin Clunes: 'Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous'". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2009.

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• There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Trying, Ontology

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• You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones. And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That's what makes you so nervous - to think about the historical part of the Opry and how it's played such a part in country music.

  Alan Jackson

  Country, Thinking, People

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• I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Kids, Sensitive

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• As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

  Tom Felton

  Names, Dames, Maggie

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• I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Play, People, Shooting

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• I've never been nervous. I just wanted to play and have a good time. If it didn't work, then I would get nervous. But, for the most part, I just go for it.

  Kevin Clash

  Play, Good Times, Having A Good Time

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• A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Physicians, Nerves, Matter

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.396, Penguin

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• I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independence, Delight, Restless

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My parenting style could be described as not good cop or bad cop so much as nervous cop. I'm always yelling for somebody to stop because they're about to get hurt. I'm the take a jacket, slow down guy.

  Paul Reiser

  Hurt, Yelling, Guy

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• My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear.

  Emo Philips

  Baby, Adoption, Waiting

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• He smiles so much, I don't think he has a central nervous system.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Nervous System, Central Nervous System

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• I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

  Matthew Perry

  Said, Asks, Julia

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• ... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

  Dennis Hopper

  Focus, Effort, Cameras

  Dennis Hopper, Nick Dawson (2012). “Dennis Hopper: Interviews”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'd love to do anything that is outside of my comfort zone, that I've never done before. Whenever I think about something that I want to take on, I like it if it makes me a bit nervous, or makes me feel like I don't know exactly that I can pull it off.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Comfort, Done

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• I was sitting on top of people and it was just really uncomfortable. There was no place to move. And, I don't like auditioning, anyways. With auditions, you can get so nervous, or other things get into your head and throw you off, and it doesn't really reflect what you can do, as an actor. The whole thing was just really nerve-wracking, but I ended up getting it.

  Tinsel Korey

  Moving, People, Nerves

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