Quotes About Nervousness

the present phase of our century may well be called, as Auden and Camus call it, the "age of overt anxiety.

I'd only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

It means you are aware of subtleties in your surroundings, a great advantage in many situations. It also means you are more easily overwhelmed when you have been out in a highly stimulating environment for too long, bombarded by sights and sounds until you are exhausted in a nervous-system sort of way.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.

Oh, I get nervous quite a bit, actually.

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.

Everything is nerve-wracking at first. Maybe it's getting older! I don't think I used to be so nervous.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

The good thing about being nervous is that you perform better.

was trembling

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Every time an artiste goes on stage, he thinks 'I hope today goes well and I hope I give my best.' That is important - that little bit of nervousness or tension is what makes you perform better.

Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.

I get nervous every single time. It doesn't matter if there're five people or five thousand. What I have noticed is that the more people there are, the less nervous I am. It's way harder to impress five people.

True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in fear and nervousness!