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Quotes About Nervousness

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
I get too hyped before games.
~ Brock Osweiler
If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.
~ Ellyse Perry
Nothing is as exciting - or as nerve-wracking - as being the new girl. Whether it's your first day of school or you're starting a dream job, if there's one thing that makes a first impression a lot less daunting, it's a really, really good hair day.
~ Elaine Welteroth
One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
~ Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
~ Bertrand Russell
I am shit scared. Shit scared of almost everything.
~ Bill Drummond
I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but in the back of your mind you're aware that there aren't that many pages left. How will it end? Everything can't be wrapped up! This can't end! Then it does, and your heart seems to stop.
~ Kresley Cole
My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.
~ Corey Haim
My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.
~ David Nicholls
I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'
~ Jesse Eisenberg
From the minute you find out you're pregnant, I believe it's a workout, because you're constantly trying to monitor what you eat and what you do, especially for the first three months. I was a nervous wreck.
~ Gemma Atkinson
I would be a nervous wreck on a date, which sounds crazy because I'm a confident woman but I wouldn't know what to do myself.
~ Maura Higgins
I walked out very nervous, my first WrestleMania, and I had my dad beside me.
~ Charlotte Flair
Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.
~ Common
I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I have this rubber band that I have all the time on my wrist, and sometimes when I get nervous or anxious, I'll do this twiddle thing with my finger and I'll snap the rubber band. A lot of people use rubber bands to cope with things like anxiety and depression and addiction.
~ Tate McRae
Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate.
~ Adena Friedman
She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails.
~ Gregory Maguire
Jessica Culver sat in her family's kitchen, in the very seat she had sat in innumerable times as a child. She should have known better. She should have thought it through, should have come prepared for any occurrence. But what had she done instead? She had gotten nervous. She had hesitated. She had stopped for a drink in the bar below his office. Stupid, stupid.
~ Harlan Coben
I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.
~ Adele
One of the downfalls of not being in Stone Sour was I sat at home for two and a half years, and I hadn't ever done that since we started touring in 1999. I was really nervous and freaked out.
~ Jim Root
First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
~ Karrie Webb