Quotes About Nervousness

It was like waiting to speak in front of the class... You have to pretend to be listening, but all you can really think abou tis when it's going to be your turn.

Fear came upon me, and trembling.

All his life he suffered from first-night nerves. He acknowledged: Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak. Every time I make a speech I feel I am submitting to judgment, not only about my ability but my character and honor. I am afraid of seeming either to promise more than I can perform, which suggests complete irresponsibility, or to perform less than I can, which suggests bad faith and indifference.

I didn't believe her. There was a nervousness in her eyes. I'd seen it when she held out the telephone for Damian. She'd been afraid he was going to snatch it from her. In fact, she was probably afraid of Damian.

My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.

Like most people, I hate public speaking.

Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.

Every time you go up to the board, you get scared. It's more like adrenaline, though - you feel pumped and ready to go.

Even if things are going well, I'm always thinking that I'm about to be hit with the dreaded gut punch and - psych! - I'll find out that it's all falling apart.

You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very few times.

I don't like flying. I'm a bit scared of it and don't enjoy the whole experience.

I hate flying. It creeps me out, and it scares me half to death.

I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

I get really frightened easily.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

It's frightening to go onto a stage, particularly in the first few days.

Winston studied Elizabeth affectionately. "That was nice of you. But Robin Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, she's OK. We really don't have much in common, though. I get nervous around people who eat all the time.

The fact that any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetary bases of fifty or more other Families causes some nervousness, true. But all of us possess precautionary plans for devastating retaliation. Guild and Landsraad contain the keys which hold this force in check. No, my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virtually unlimited field which a few powers are developing.

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

And yet the fear!

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.