Quotes About Nervousness

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

I love the live shows when they're on and all singing great but I hate it when the judges say bad things about their singing. I feel sick because I feel it is mean because I've done the reality TV thing so I have such strong memories of what it feels like and I just imagine how bad and how nervous they must feel.

When you work as a cinematographer, the actors look to you for reassurance. When you're lighting them, they can never think you're making an adjustment because of the way they look. If they are nervous, it impacts their performance, which impacts the story.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

I was recording my audiobook, and it's so weird. You write things, but then to have to say them out loud in front of people feels so different. So when I was recording my audiobook, I was telling an embarrassing story in front of, like, a room full of audio-tech people that I don't know, and I was like 'Oh my God, this is so cringe.'

I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

Good God, but life could be less than easy, not that he was unaware that it could certainly be a lot worse, but to go about in such a state, pulse high, face red, worried sick that someone would notice how nervous one was, was certainly less than ideal, and he felt sure that his body was secreting all kinds of harmful chemicals and that the more he worried about the harmful chemicals the faster they were pouring out of wherever it was they came from.

Was he some kind of worrywart? It worried him.

He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde.

Before normal games I was always relaxed. But at the World Cup for Italy my heartbeat was always going a lot quicker.

I didn't want to go completely on my toes for our first kiss.

He found Frank Wisner much harder to read. "He was extremely polite, and obviously very intelligent, but there was a kind of tension, a nervousness, about him. And he was a Southerner, of course. I hadn't really been around many Southerners at that point, so it was hard for me to square his energy level, his dynamism, with this soft accent, this gracious quality of his.

I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more.

People tend to get nervous when you stare at them. They are racked with enough insecurities as it is. They always look away, glance back quickly and look away again. Some part of them melts and as they attempt to gather themselves, their flesh forms puddles at their feet.

I'm, uh, going up to the room Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to get ready." "You've got at least four hours before we have to leave." "Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

Butterflies instantly came to life in his stomach, and the little bastards were heavily armed.

For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.