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Quotes About Nervousness

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.
~ Sheridan Smith
I suffer from stage fright, so I blabber on stage and stop midway through my performances. I cannot even write a cheque, as it makes me nervous. Being around people makes me nervous. But I'm very comfortable in front of the camera, and this I realised many films later.
~ Dhanush
For as long as I can remember I had suffered from anxiety, nervousness, the big black cloud, stress, low moods, sadness.
~ Frankie Bridge
I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
~ George Murray
I don't think you can sum up how it feels, to come on and score on my debut.
~ Daniel James
Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous.
~ Issa Rae
Mildred had already anticipated this in a quavery voice.
~ Ray Bradbury
We will also do better when we can recognize the worry thoughts as signs of nervousness and anxiety, the same as an eye twitch or sweaty palms, rather than some important message about the future
~ David A. Carbonell
I've never been this scared before, dude. Not like this.
~ James Dashner
Los nervios previos a la batalla eran todavía peores que el miedo en sí.
~ James Dashner
At first they could discover nothing wrong, but that was traced to the fact that I had nervously put my right hand into the X-ray machine.
~ Dorothy Parker
I don't know what the usual reactions are of a man who goes to propose marriage. In fiction his throat is dry and his collar feels too tight and he is in a pitiable state of nervousness.
~ Agatha Christie
She returned that intent gaze quietly and without any nervousness. He said at last:
~ Agatha Christie
Frank Carter trembled violently. Sweat came out on his brow. His eyes, more furtive than ever, went wildly from side to side.
~ Agatha Christie
Everyone looked at each other. Somehow—nobody quite knew what to say. 'All rot, of course,' said Ronnie with an uneasy laugh.
~ Agatha Christie
His hands were shaking and his face was twitching. He looked a wreck of a man.
~ Agatha Christie
She fumbled with her bag and pulled out a handkerchief. Her voice trembled.
~ Agatha Christie
I watched Harry closely as he read the joke and then… burst out laughing. In fact, he started shaking with laughter. It was a surreal moment, sitting nervously with my consultants, watching Harry Reid convulse in hysterics over the idea of Anne Frank playing drums in the attic. Finally, he turned to me. I just shrugged.
~ Al Franken
Waiting for her in reception, pretending to read a paper, he was surprised by his own nervousness; an indication of how little one knew oneself. She
~ Alan Judd
A pioneering work in the study of neurasthenia, American Nervousness builds its case through an elaborate mechanical metaphor: the nervous system is like a machine presently under strain in response to the pressures of the machinery of civilized life.
~ Alan Trachtenberg
Our fears keep us on our toes.
~ Alastair Reynolds
It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
~ JoBeth Williams
My first gig was at Carle Place High School, which is in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. I was 14, and I was invited to play with this band, and I was so excited, but I was really petrified.
~ Joe Satriani
There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent.
~ Romesh Ranganathan