Nervous Quotes · Page 30

To get up to 'SmackDown Live' and have my first match on live TV, I was so nervous.

— Carmella

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

“The way you seem nervous makes me think you don’t know that I’m in love with you.”

— Christina Lauren

Both hands on the wheel, Mr. Jones, I'm a very nervous passenger.

— James Bond

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

— Charles Stanley

Even after spending a substantial time in the entertainment business, before the release of a film, I am nervous.

— Manisha Koirala

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

— Dita Von Teese

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

— Juno Temple

I don't get intimidated, you know. Because I feel like when you get intimidated, you become nervous, and then you turn to…

— BeBe Zahara Benet

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and…

— Renee O'Connor

Ass up, legs up to the sky. I know this ain't your first time, so baby don't be... (acting shy up in…

— Tyga

The Edinburgh Fringe is a tough beast and you do whatever you can to get through it. But it's really the worst…

— Russell Howard

The Fall was super powerful to me because of their covers. They were intimidating. I bought 'This Nation's Saving Grace' when it…

— James Murphy

“Nothing makes me more nervous than people who say, ‘It can’t happen here.’ Anything can happen anywhere, given the right circumstances.”

— Margaret Atwood

I love getting nervous, because it's also a form of excitement and it makes me feel alive, you know? I like that…

— Paula Abdul

I taught myself to juggle around [age] 11,... I've always been pretty coordinated, but I won't do it on stage. I'd get…

— Keri Hilson

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of…

— Blair Underwood

I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this…

— Tao Lin

Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick,…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.…

— George Orwell

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the…

— Jermain Defoe

Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize…

— Lauren Barnholdt

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends…

— Roger Federer

Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in…

— Tim Harford

My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

— Tamara Mellon

For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

— Usain Bolt

I always feel a little bit nervous and excited at the same time.

— Sasha Luss

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

— Peter McWilliams

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

— Glen Hansard

My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

— Kat Graham

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

— Marshall McLuhan

Stand-up doesn't terrify me or even make me nervous beyond some pre-show restless excitement.

— Chris McCausland

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult…

— Christina Ricci

You have to be as strong when things go wrong, but I don't get nervous.

— David de Gea

Drugs make me nervous, really, because I'm a control freak and I don't like to be out of control on drugs.

— Jedediah Bila

I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

— Tommy Emmanuel

“It's something to be anxious about," Manley said, "if you want to be anxious about something.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Sometimes when I'm nervous, that's when the most interesting things happen.

— Chelsea Peretti

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

— Bertrand Russell