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Auditioning is so nerve-racking.
Leslie Mann / Actress
Auditioning
Nerve-Racking
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Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.
Donny Deutsch / Television Personality
Nerves
Personal Life
Nerve-Racking
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We know what it's like to audition as kids and how nerve-racking it is.
Declan Donnelly /
Audition
Nerve-Racking
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It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.
Duncan Jones / Film Director
Nerve-Racking
Showing
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Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Competition
Farewell
People
Thrive
Nerve-Racking
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You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Normal
Nerve-Racking
Normal Person
Sing
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The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.
Luke Evans / Actor
Time Experience First Time
Nerve-Racking
Flown
Test
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The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
Shania Twain / Singer-Songwriter
Littles
Nerves
Spotlight
Time Doing More
Nerve-Racking
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Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.
John Tiffany /
Broadway
Nerve-Racking
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Doing a remake of an iconic song is always nerve-racking because you never know if you can actually do justice to it.
Nora Fatehi /
Iconic
Nerve-Racking
Remake
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Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
Dash Mihok / Actor
Auditioning
Nerve-Racking
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Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.
Mackenzie Scott /
Brevity
Nerve-Racking
Cocktail
Conversations
Number
Spot
Parties
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I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.
Audrina Patridge / Television Personality
Cameras
Hills
Nerves
Nerve-Racking
Feel Comfortable More
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
Hailee Steinfeld / Film Actress
Nerves
Pages
Tape
Thinking
First Think About
Audition
Nerve-Racking
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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.
Melvyn Bragg / Broadcaster
Nerve-Racking
Interviewing
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A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.
Lydia Ko / Professional Golfer
Chance
Feet
Nerves
Nerve-Racking
Putt
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The first laugh is always key. I've done some improv stuff. Once you get your first laugh, you're good. Up until that point, it's a little nerve-racking.
Blake Griffin / Basketball Player
Nerve-Racking
Improv
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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 /
Best Music People
Nerve-Racking
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Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate.
Adena Friedman /
Future
Clean
Embarking
Exciting
New Job
Slate
Starting
Job
Also
Nerve-Racking
Write
Fresh
Positioning
Story
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Some of us find 'relaxing' to be, in itself, nerve-racking. If we aren't doing something useful or, at least, that seems useful, we feel guilty, impatient, and mortal.
Victoria Coren Mitchell / Writer
Guilty
Nerve-Racking
Mortal
Relaxing
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I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.
Craig Ferguson / Talk Show Host
Honest
Train Wrecks
Tricky
Trying
Who I Am
Quite
Nerve-Racking
Wreck
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I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.
Rutina Wesley / Film Actress
Broadway
Vertical
Nerve-Racking
Moore
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It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Leader
Nerve-Racking
Center
Craves
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
Naomi Watts / Actress
Men
Clothes
Farewell
Man Me Woman
Nerve-Racking
Grab
Safer
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When they said there was gonna be about 100,000 people at Woodstock, and it went up to 200,000, I just blanked off and thought, 'I don't want to do this.' If they're filming it, it's too nerve-racking.
Jeff Beck / Guitarist
Woodstock
Nerve-Racking
Filming
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I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini - taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time.
Cindy Margolis / Actress
Careers
First Time
Issues
Little Bit
Littles
Made
Posing
Time Will Doing
Nerve-Racking
Bit
Bikini
Career
Off
Material
Swimsuit
Taking
Tell
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During my teen years, I just really started to get anxiety. I would get stage fright when I would do certain speaking engagements and I always would get through them, but it was a really nerve-racking and hard thing to do.
Skai Jackson /
Teen
Certain
Fright
Stage
Stage Fright
Years
Nerve-Racking
Engagements
Hard Thing
Speaking
Teen Years
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When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'
Rico Rodriguez /
Auditions
If I Could
Modern Family
Family Mom Always
Nerve-Racking
Awesome
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I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.
Richard Cabral / Actor
Bars
Overwhelming
Prison
Life Society World
Nerve-Racking
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I've been nervous a number of times. Your first start. Playing in the Super Bowl. Your first Super Bowl. Very nerve-racking. The one thing that you can always fall back on is that you know what you are doing. You know how to play the game.
Kurt Warner / Football Analyst
Super Bowl
Start Always Your
Nerve-Racking
Bowl
The One Thing
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It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
Benedict Cumberbatch / Voice Actor
Contribution
Difficult
Joy
Luck
Reality
Talent
Nerve-Racking
Joys
Plan
Preordained
Realities
Thrills
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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
Michael Caine / Actor
Jobs
Appropriate
Hands
Oscars
Presenting
Show Business
Waiting
Wings
Nerve-Racking
Gag
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I went on Ellen once, and even then, I was just a bad performer. It was nerve-racking at first playing in front of all her fans who really wanted to see her. Her fans are so young and accepting to new people, and it helped that they knew 'Marvin Gaye,' too.
Charlie Puth /
Nerve-Racking
Ellen
New People
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I remember that when people started listening to what I had to say, I had a choice to set up a veil, even if it meant being something that I'm not. Ultimately, that's not the decision I made. I owned more of everything I am, which was a little nerve-racking.
Lzzy Hale / Singer
Decision
Nerve-Racking
Meant
Choice
Owned
Ultimately
Veil
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When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.
Emilia Fox / Actress
Found
Left
Musical
Orchestra
Regret
Solo
Although
Nerve-Racking
Played
Loved
Carry
Cello
Choose
Instrument
Loved Playing
Musical Instrument
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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
Eddie Marsan / Actor
Jobs
Wedding
Eulogy
Funeral
Knowing
Self Conscious
Thinking
Me People Find
Nerve-Racking
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Obviously Messi is one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in the world. Looking up to him when you're young and now playing against him, it was very nerve-racking for me - especially when he would come up on my side, my heart would be beating faster and faster.
Alphonso Davies /
Faster
Messi
Nerve-Racking
Beating
Best Heart World
Obviously
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
Laura Harrier /
Arbitrary
Time Myself Eyes
Nerve-Racking
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While I was playing, I started a company that didn't work out. I got a taste of the business world and realized I'm not going to be a 9-to-5 guy in the office after football is over. When the opportunity came for television. I thought, 'Let's go for it,' even though it was nerve-racking. I enjoyed it.
Tony Gonzalez / American Football Player
Business World
Work Business Opportunity
Nerve-Racking
Go For It
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There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh - although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone.
Mark Billingham / Novelist
Brilliant
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Stale
Zone
Nerve-Racking
Fresh
Refresh
Writes
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Filming costs so much money, so it's such a nerve-racking process, whereas being in a studio is quite cheap compared to that, so you have more time to work on things until you feel good about them. That makes it easier to explain a certain feeling and be in a vulnerable place while making sure it does what you want it to do.
Robyn / Record Producer
Easier
Feel Good
Process
Time Work Good
Quite
Nerve-Racking
Cheap
Compared
Filming
Explain
Work Time Good
Studio
So Much Money
Whereas
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What's easy to forget once you're minorly famous is how nerve-racking it is to walk up to someone famous and interrupt them. When I'm taking a picture with a fan, it's not uncommon for their hands to be shaking or for me to feel their heart pounding through their rib cage. But the best part is how easy it is for me to make someone's day.
Max Joseph /
Shaking
Uncommon
Nerve-Racking
Best Part
Cage
Interrupt
Pounding
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