Nervous Quotes - Page 6

• If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Games, Play, Going Away

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• Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

  Joey Harrington

  Football, Creativity, Skills

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• I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.

  Cliff Lee

  League, Bigs

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• Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

  Jimmy Rollins

  Thinking, Energy, Able

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• All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.

  Sarah Paulson

  Mother, Jobs, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Skills, Natural, Stage

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• When I first started, I was really nervous. You could hear my voice quiver. So I started drinking a bit and that helped. A lot of entertainers have a few drinks before going onstage and don't overdo it. Me, it turned into a bigger habit. But I stopped that. I was getting older, and I was thinking about my kids. There's enough roadblocks out there without throwing in more yourself.

  Tim McGraw

  Drinking, Kids, Thinking

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• Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

  Martin Clunes

  Art, Suffering, Flatulence

  "Martin Clunes: 'Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous'". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Smell, Doe

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• There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Trying, Ontology

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• You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones. And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That's what makes you so nervous - to think about the historical part of the Opry and how it's played such a part in country music.

  Alan Jackson

  Country, Thinking, People

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• When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

  Zhuangzi

  Archer, Skills, Two

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• I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Kids, Sensitive

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• As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

  Tom Felton

  Names, Dames, Maggie

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• When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.

  John Krokidas

  Eye, Home, Attachment

  Source: collider.com

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• I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Play, People, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never been nervous. I just wanted to play and have a good time. If it didn't work, then I would get nervous. But, for the most part, I just go for it.

  Kevin Clash

  Play, Good Times, Having A Good Time

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Sally Phillips

  Comfort, Ifs, Only Time

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• The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I'm nervous, and then when I get into it, it's just like I feel like I'm the person who sang the song first.

  Jackie Evancho

  Song, Mean, Firsts

  "Jackie Evancho: Chasing Her Dreams". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

  Beyonce Knowles

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• I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

  Taylor Swift

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• Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They're one of those things where you're forced to be happy. And even if you're totally depressed, you're got to pretend you're glad you were born, regardless of the fact that getting older means you're closer to dying.

  A.M. Homes

  Party, Mean, Getting Older

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• A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Physicians, Nerves, Matter

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.396, Penguin

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• I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independence, Delight, Restless

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

  Bob Hope

  Swim, Monkeys, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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