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Quotes About Nervousness

It's not so much that I don't enjoy playing live - that's one of the best parts of playing music - it's that it's nerve-racking with 300, 500 people watching.
~ Hope Sandoval
The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
~ Bonnie Hunt
If you can't relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you're too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.
~ Travis Bradberry
I don't usually get nervous on the pitch because playing football is what I've done all my life.
~ Marco Asensio
I think, when I was younger and I was on loan, I used to get nervous before games, but as you get older, you adapt to it, and it becomes second nature to walk out onto the pitch and perform.
~ Jesse Lingard
I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.
~ Lucy Hale
I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
~ Wayne Knight
I'm so afraid of confrontation.
~ Elisabeth Moss
Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.
~ Mikaela Shiffrin
Sometimes, when I'm surrounded by a lot of people, I shake, I'm so nervous.
~ Yalitza Aparicio
Always for me, when theres any leadup or hype or anticipation surrounding an event, such as the release of a show, it always gives me a bit of anxiety.
~ Madeleine Madden
Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense that surrounds it - that can be on your own terms.
~ Pollyanna McIntosh
Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.
~ Keith Emerson
I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.
~ Nickolas Ashford
I sweat a lot because I get really nervous.
~ Bayley
It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.
~ Christina Aguilera
It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.
~ Goran Ivanisevic
All there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that would force him to send me down to Cramer bearing gifts, and there was practically nothing on earth he wouldn't rather do, even eating ice cream with cantaloupe or horseradish on oysters.
~ Rex Stout
Nico, you can do this, Jason said. It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter. Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god. Favonius beamed. Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?
~ Rick Riordan
Annabeth Thalia and I hadn't seen each other in months but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about to do we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom. She talks more when she's nervous. By the time we finally got to Westover Hall it was getting dark and she'd told Annabeth and Thalia every embarrassing baby story there was to tell about me.
~ Rick Riordan
Everybody is tense. Tad does his best to
~ William Swanson
he thought he was going to be slapped.
~ David Walliams
there was a reason Zoey had downed a fairly large antianxiety cookie before anyone had arrived.
~ David Wong
My sphincter is puckered just hearing about it. I doubt the best laxative in the world would do jack right now.
~ David Wood