‘The Notebook’ gets me every time. It’s a great love story. Boy from the wrong side of the tracks. They get on each other’s nerves, but they can’t live without each other. It almost makes me shed a tear.
You can freak when you are at the Olympic Games. There are millions of cameras. Everyone is watching every move. Some people will trip where they would never trip in a routine. It’s the small thing that nerves really bring out in people.
I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
Information is crucial to our biological substance – our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
If you don’t have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don’t think you’re really alive.
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
In our story logic which we’re making up, if we’re saying he’s alive, then like a quadriplegic who’s in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can’t move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
Every time I compete, I still get nervous. There are the nerves that are because ‘oh this is really going to hurt,’ then there’s the, ‘I have to go fast and I don’t know how fast everyone else is going to go,’ nerves.
As I’ve got older, the nerves aren’t there anymore; they just left one day when I was at Watford. I only feel excitement now, whatever the game.
Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
You’re sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don’t have nerves because of that natural affinity.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other thought. This is the way to success.
I think it’s healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Obviously you can’t please everyone. I’m sure some people say, ‘Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.’
Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other’s nerves.
I just grate on my own nerves. I don’t like to watch me.
I don’t know, I think everybody deals with nerves and adrenaline a little bit differently.
Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.
I have always boxed better with a bit of nerves.
I’m confident and when you have power like me, it relaxes your nerves.
I think nerves stop you from doing things. Make you stop and maybe make you withdraw. Then there’s excitement where you can’t wait to do it.
Joe E. Lewis said, ‘Money doesn’t buy happiness but it calms the nerves.’ And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
I always played on my nerves – on the edge.
Just because I have to deal with the stress and pressure and nerves of elite sport every day, it doesn’t mean it all comes easily. I have worked hard at the mental side of my game.
I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.
I don’t get nervous in any situation. There’s no such thing as nerves when you’re playing games.
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
Feeling a few nerves is necessary and positive. That tension is a good thing: it’s a sign that you’re doing something you like, that you’re passionate about, and about which you have a great sense of responsibility and respect for.
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach.
I don’t really play off nerves. I just want to win.
Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I’ll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.
I don’t feel like I’m the type of performer who’s going to knock your socks off. I’m trying to get over my nerves.
With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
I like to work smart and make music that people want to hear – just finding ways to not get on people’s nerves when I’m coming through their ears.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
That’s an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you’re not thinking about anything, you’re not thinking about your lines or what you’re supposed to do – your body, your brain knows, so there’s freedom. There’s not fear, there’s not nerves.
