I play banjo, and in Britain, it’s easy to get away with playing banjo because you don’t often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you’re a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
I get nervous every single time. It doesn’t matter if there’re five people or five thousand. What I have noticed is that the more people there are, the less nervous I am. It’s way harder to impress five people.
The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
If you’re making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way… and then understanding that you can work through it.
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He’s not from a different country. He’s from a different planet.
I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
I remember when I was a dancer and I had to do this performance and I was really nervous about it, and I happened at that moment to go see ‘Flashdance.’ I mean, it’s silly, but I walked out of that movie going ‘what a feeling!’ I walked out with confidence.
I was very comfortable on the set of ‘Lost’. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the ‘Lost’ episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.
‘True Romance’ was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
I always feel a little funny being in front of a lot of people trying to show them my approach to the ukulele, but I do enjoy it. I do get a little more nervous doing workshops rather than performing.
I never got nervous performing my own material.
The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I’ve always wanted to do. It’s why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn’t feel that way if I were nervous onstage.
I get nervous about everything. I think there’s something wrong if you don’t get nervous.
I love tennis more than designing because it’s actually easier and I don’t get nearly as nervous.
You’ve got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they’re afraid I’ll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.
As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.
I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.
I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I’ll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
I’m not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
Being nervous isn’t always the worst thing for me.
I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.
I once went on a date where the girl drove and so couldn’t drink. I was nervous, so drank quite a bit – it didn’t end amazingly. As much as I love movies, I think cinema dates can be weird because you essentially sit next to each other in silence for a couple of hours.
I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.
I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, ‘I’ll go out there and have fun,’ but it’s very nerve-wracking for me. I don’t think that will ever change.
I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O’Hara.
If there came a time when we didn’t get nervous, that would be worrying, as it’d mean we didn’t care as much.
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.
And if it’s a boy, I will be really nervous because I have no idea what to do with a boy because I am a girl and I have a girl!
When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It’s sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.
To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you’re really attracted to? I think that’s wonderful. That’s usually the best part. In fact, it’s almost always downhill from there.
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But as long as I can play a little acoustic guitar backstage if I’m feeling nervous, so I don’t have to walk in there cold turkey, I’ll be fine.
Moderates shouldn’t be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he’s laid it forward. He’s fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.
I failed public speaking in grade school, ’cause I was so nervous and scared.
I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.
Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.
I’m fine around other people’s feelings. It doesn’t make me nervous or anxious.
Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other’s face and ending one’s career.
The studio was very nervous about ‘Raging Bull.’
I’ve never followed a list in my life, and that’s probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.
I attempt to surf. I’m not as good as anyone else in the water. I’m more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!
I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love.
I couldn’t write because my nervous system was so bad – I couldn’t even use a pen.
When I’m nervous, I know I care about something – you should be nervous about things that you want.
My inspiration is endless; I can’t define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I’m taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I’ll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
I don’t get nervous when I’m interviewing someone on film – it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.
No one knows what they’re doing. I remember going into an interview with a big star and I was nervous. Then I realised they were more nervous. I realised I was the one with the power because I was the one asking the questions.
I’m kind of ready for anything. I don’t really get nervous, and I’m not the type of person who gets worried about a game. I just play the game, and I enjoy it.
I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.
With a suit, even if you’re having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you’re in charge.
I was a little nervous that people wouldn’t take to ‘Under Pressure,’ because my style and what I embodied had previously been the braggadocious ’90s fun rapper type. Before this album, I didn’t rap about my life much.
I’m taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
