Quotes About Nervousness

Before every performance I feel nervous.

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.

After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it. I just, you know, I want it to be a good show, and I want people to get their money's worth.

I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you're going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun.

I can talk to execs very clearly, very plainly. I don't get nervous in front of them anymore.

Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.

It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.

I'm always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn't self-doubt, you seem aggressive.

I'm nervous before all shows.

Along with any great joy comes a good deal of anxiety and nervousness.

I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

My very first film in Hindi - 'CID' - was with Dev Anand. I was a big fan of his. So you can imagine my excitement and nervousness at doing a film with him. On the very first day on the sets, when I called him 'Dev Saab' he turned around and said 'No no, call me Dev.'

I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.