Nervous Quotes

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. — George Lois

Because I'm nervous and I eat when I'm nervous, he said, looking at me from the side. — Nicole Williams

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

Maybe God gets nervous in places like this, the way I feel in restaurants with linen napkins, because if he does exist, I don't feel him here. — Marie-Helene Bertino

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there. — Misty Copeland

I was so nervous before going out there — Natasha Kaplinsky

Pick this one, she vibrates! — Erica Larsen

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that. — Jordi Molla

I was nervous because I really wanted this to go well. — N.R. Walker

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea. — Gia Coppola

[Macklemore]'s always nervous about messing up, like how a guy who's caught the attention of a girl who's too pretty for him behaves. — Shea Serrano

I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red. — Zoey Deutch

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

This guy makes coffee nervous. — Bobby Heenan

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

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something. — Kevin Spacey

His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them. — Darin Strauss

Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel. — Francesca Annis

Jessica Cameron had to propose marriage in a couple of hours, and she was a little nervous about it. Trying — Noelle Adams

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

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

[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous. — Ian Sansom

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. — Dennis Miller

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

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

It makes me nervous, the way the biggest things and the smallest live together day in and day out. — Deb Caletti

Lila smiled at that, one of those smiles that made Kell profoundly nervous. The kind of smile usually followed by a weapon. — V.E Schwab

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie. — Neil Simon

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session. — Jane Lynch

I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous. — Rupert Grint

I don't particularly get nervous about anything. — Fabrice Muamba

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid. — Elvis Presley

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them. — Derek Jeter

Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system. Raskolnikov — Anton Chekhov

You look nervous."
"I'm ... a little nervous."
"You'll be fine. You're pretty. You're alien. You'll trend well. — Chuck Wendig

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring. — Conor Oberst

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one. — Paul Harvey

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage. — Thia Megia

I think women are usually a little bit nervous about wearing white denim. — Brad Goreski

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying, — Mary Wells Lawrence

I was born with a nervous breakdown. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I don't really get nervous. — Shamir

How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well? — Jeaniene Frost

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

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering. — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system. — Elon Musk

I really have never been nervous in the big leagues. — Cliff Lee

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them. — Terrence McNally

Just because something's hard and just because it makes both of us nervous doesn't mean it isn't worth it, Reese. Worth absolutely everything. — Melissa Foster

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

Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough. — Frances Beinecke

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me. — Yoko Ono

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

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

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

I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand. — Ringo Starr

The distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos. — James Henry Breasted

Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous - merely undecided. — Arthur C. Clarke

When I opened the door, Andrew was standing there like a remedy for heart palpitations. Or maybe he made them worse. It was hard to tell. — N.R. Walker

To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country. — Hasan M. Elahi

I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out. — Johnny Depp

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick? — Jay Leno

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. — Sara Blakely

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting. — Sienna Miller

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest. — Gail Devers

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing. — Elizabeth Bowen

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking. — Jon Bernthal

Do I make you nervous?" he said teasingly. — S.G. Holster

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous. — James Woolsey

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond? — Lisi Harrison

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous. — Mason Cooley

Don't make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don't make decisions when you are nervous or upset. — Ehab Atalla

Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right. — Sara Quin

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully. — Lydia Ko

And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going. — Regina Spektor

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure. — Maxwell Maltz

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. — Ingrid Newkirk

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels. — Michael Eric Dyson

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive. — Morena Baccarin

I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene. — Adria Arjona

I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they? — Mark Z. Danielewski

I can't play video games because I get too nervous. It just stresses me out. — Michael Cudlitz

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. — George Lois

It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience. — Charlotte Church

It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere. — Ivan Turgenev

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

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

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous. — Budd Schulberg

What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game. — Marcus Giles

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

The outside world is just a bad habit of the so-called nervous system. — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows. — Scott Bakula

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off. — Jerry O'Connell

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

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine. — Jim Butcher

I'm never nervous. Not in high school, not in college. That's just the way I am. — Chauncey Billups

Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun. — James Maslow

It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released! — Sienna Miller

Nico enjoyed how nervous the Romans acted around him, even though they were older and bigger and more experienced fighters. — Rick Riordan

It's the Masters. If that doesn't get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don't know what does. — Peter Uihlein