I get terrified the first day I’m on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.
When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.
As I understand from the real military personnel who I’ve had the opportunity to speak to over the last few years, humor is very much used to diffuse stress. I think that if they were to keep it as serious as the situations often are, there would be a lot more nervous breakdowns.
People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin’ nervous it can make you feel.
I’m not a nervous flier. I realize it’s still the safest form of travel.
I get nervous cooking for our little house party barbecues. I’m very insecure with my cooking. I tend to throw things away that I’m scared of serving, even though they might be great.
I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I’m in, I can take the reins and go. It’s just the initial approach I’m really bad at.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Kids are smart: don’t underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don’t even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.
I’m getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
I’m definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I’ve been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn’t have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it’s not going to Broadway; it’s just a different city.
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn’t put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
There were times I’d be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, ‘If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don’t know what I’ll do.’
I always get nervous before a scene.
Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person.
For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I’m always a little bit nervous.
Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They’ve practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The military aggression gets everybody nervous.
I walked out very nervous, my first WrestleMania, and I had my dad beside me.
Every time before I go on stage, I’m nervous.
I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare – about work, anyway – I always take that as a really good sign.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren’t of course.
I just sing the songs that people don’t expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I’m always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
I’m excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn’t have high expectations, I wouldn’t come back here.
It’s the Masters. If that doesn’t get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don’t know what does.
I think I’m always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.
Some people think that confidence is something that some people just have. Even though I may look confident strutting in a two-piece on a stage, there are days when I’m so nervous, or I feel like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know if I can do this.’
During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it’s about two thirds of the way through the book – I’m just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.
Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
I get so nervous on stage I can’t help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it’s pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I’m going to be able to deliver.
When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I’m trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking ‘Star Trek’ to someone who’s talking ‘Star Wars.’ Anyway, it doesn’t work out usually when I ‘try’ to be funny.
I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ recording session.
China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ is my go-to song to pump myself up if I’m having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word ‘socialist,’ get very, very nervous.
My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
I mean, I can cook, but I’d get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.
Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.
The two moments that I felt the most nervous in my entire life were when I first had reading rehearsal for ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’ and when I was at the Academy Awards ceremony.
I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, ‘What if I can’t do this?’ But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
I get nervous as hell when it’s time for the songs to come out.
I am a little nervous with strangers. But I’m not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.
You’ve got to feel a little nervous when you first meet Spielberg. The guy’s an apparition.
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.
I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I’ll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I’m afraid that I’ll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.
With such riches as I have in life, you’re always nervous. Being Irish, you’re waiting for something to knock it sideways.
After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn’t know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.
It was really good working with Paresh Rawal. I was nervous at first because he is such a big star and I love his performances, but the initial nervousness went away once I got to know him. He is a very simple and hardworking man.
It’s hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.
I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.
There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.
Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as ‘Scott Bakoola.’ Not a good sign. I also didn’t get the show.
I’m always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It’s a unique storytelling form, and it requires both talent and respect.
Being in a Grand Slam, doesn’t matter what you did before, it’s always nervous and excitement.
I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.
I’ve never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.
I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.
I feel you gotta be nervous. If you’re nervous, it’s just ’cause you want to do well, it’s not ’cause you’re scared.
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.
By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
