I feel nervous because I revere [Zadie Smith] so much. I don't want to be stupid. If I say something stupid, just interrupt me.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it.

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.

The biggest problem for people who get really, really nervous when they perform live is that you think everybody's looking at you.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.

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 was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

I am very excited about 'Raees.' But more than this, I am nervous, too. It feels like I am under pressure to show my acting skills.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

I am very happy. And also, I want to come out to bat in this kind of tough situation when everybody in the dressing room is nervous.

Girls come up to me and start crying. Or they're so nervous, they are shaking. Some have tried to sneak grabs of my abs and my butt!

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

I usually never, ever get nervous before a regular show. But a TV show? I'm always nervous because you know you gotta nail that song.

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.

When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

Do I make you nervous?" His gaze travels from my eyes to my breasts and down to where my dress meets my thighs. "In that dress you do.

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.

I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.

I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself.

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.'

There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

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.

Sometimes you're so nervous about piloting something that you could probably just not empower others to finish what they're supposed to.

Whenever you give a shot, the nervous energy in your stomach is the key to that emotional breakdown, that kick that is needed to perform.

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

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