Quotes About Nervousness

I used to get very nervous and couldn't even pronounce my name in front of my camera.

The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded on virtually the same basis as admission into an insane asylum: an inability to think, amorality, and nervous excitability. 176

trips made him nervous.

When you went to Old Trafford, you feared what was going to happen.

I got to spend a week with Lenny Kravitz while we were filming his arc, which was very exciting. This guy is so cool and amazing that beforehand I felt so uncool and nervous.

My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.

My very first live shot was from the White House lawn. I literally almost threw up. I was so scared out of my mind. It was horrible.

I didn't think I was going to be drafted, to be honest. I'm so serious. I mean, wholeheartedly, too. I don't know. I didn't realize it, probably, until about a week and a half, two weeks before the Draft.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

I have a tendency to freak myself out.

I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

I have a terrible reputation for being nervous.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

I am terrified of plane landing. It's a phobia for me.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.