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Quotes About Nervousness

It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.
~ Nellie McKay
Many women talk a lot out of nervousness-which is something that men will often perceive as insecurity.
~ Sherry Argov
As so often happens in life, he had thought so much and so often of the situation that now confronted him that he was somewhat nervous in its presence.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Not only was I embarrassed, frankly, I became offended, not to mention deeply ashamed. A nervousness entered my body and I thought for a moment that I was going to cry. After all, I had never seen that part of a grown man's anatomy, and I suddenly found myself thinking about all the males in my family.
~ Sia Figiel
Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he was actually saying something that sounded like it might be a prelude to asking me out - well, I nearly threw up. I mean it. I felt really sick, but in a good way.
~ Meg Cabot
Rottcodd was unmarried. An aloofness and even a nervousness was apparent on first acquaintance and the ladies held a peculiar horror for him. His, then, was an ideal existence, living alone day and night in a long loft. Yet occasionally, for one reason or another, a servant or a member of the household would make an unexpected appearance and startle him with some question appertaining to ritual, and then the dust would settle once more in the hall and on the soul of Mr. Rottcodd.
~ Mervyn Peake
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
~ Bertrand Russell
I can't talk on the radio at all. When the red light comes on, my hands go up in the air: I think they're trying to get to my face, to shut me up. I don't talk on stage for the same reason.
~ Alison Mosshart
100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I've met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet - I just shut up and bow down.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.
~ Crystal Gayle
When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.
~ Anne Hathaway
My first interviews, I didn't know what to say. I was really, really shy. It's overwhelming sometimes.
~ Anna Ewers
I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.
~ Robert Crumb
In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.
~ Tyler Hilton
I am still shy when I go to interviews.
~ Prabhas
I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
~ Skylar Grey
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
I had my very first match against NXT Women's Champion Sasha Banks three weeks after I signed. I'm quite proud of that, but I can't explain how nervous I was.
~ Peyton Royce
Everyone finds interviews nerve-wracking so try updating your interview outfit with some new accessories, such as a fabulous silk scarf, so you feel great and know that you look a million dollars, even if you're feeling a little apprehensive.
~ Gok Wan
I still get a rush of adrenaline after a big game, but the older I get, the more I laugh at the days when I was nervous to interview an athlete or coach.
~ Samantha Ponder
LA PONCIA: Ésta tiene algo. La encuentro sin sosiego, temblona, asustada, como si tuviese una lagartija entre los pechos.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
~ Fran Lebowitz
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
~ Fran Lebowitz
down and was rubbing his hands
~ Blair Howard