Nervous Quotes - Page 7

• My parenting style could be described as not good cop or bad cop so much as nervous cop. I'm always yelling for somebody to stop because they're about to get hurt. I'm the take a jacket, slow down guy.

  Paul Reiser

  Hurt, Yelling, Guy

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• My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear.

  Emo Philips

  Baby, Adoption, Waiting

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• I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Religious, Fighting, Years

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• He smiles so much, I don't think he has a central nervous system.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Nervous System, Central Nervous System

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• I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

  Matthew Perry

  Said, Asks, Julia

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• One of my career ambitions was fulfilled working with John [Hurt]. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea of being an actor, so I was nervous to meet him. I was like a fanboy, like that annoying character on 'Saturday Night Live'. I'm sitting there. 'Do you remember when you were in 'Midnight Express'? Remember that scene you were in?' And he doesn't disappoint.

  Gary Oldman

  Hurt, Ambition, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

  Dennis Hopper

  Focus, Effort, Cameras

  Dennis Hopper, Nick Dawson (2012). “Dennis Hopper: Interviews”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'd love to do anything that is outside of my comfort zone, that I've never done before. Whenever I think about something that I want to take on, I like it if it makes me a bit nervous, or makes me feel like I don't know exactly that I can pull it off.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Comfort, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I was pretty nervous when I met Robert Kirkman. It's very strange to meet someone who created you. Andrea [ from The Walking Dead] is still very much alive and kicking, seven years into the comic book, so to meet Robert and be like, "Hi, I'm Andrea," I had to just hope that he was happy with the decision.

  Laurie Holden

  Book, Years, Walking Dead

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

  Charles Baxter

  Home, Writing, Stories

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Writing, Guy, Greek

  Source: collider.com

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• I was sitting on top of people and it was just really uncomfortable. There was no place to move. And, I don't like auditioning, anyways. With auditions, you can get so nervous, or other things get into your head and throw you off, and it doesn't really reflect what you can do, as an actor. The whole thing was just really nerve-wracking, but I ended up getting it.

  Tinsel Korey

  Moving, People, Nerves

  Source: collider.com

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• Whereas, if you have a longer scene, then you have momentum to build it up. I thought I sucked, but Chris Weitz is an actor, so he understands that process and that you can get nervous in it, and he can look beyond that. Or, it was just me and I was over-thinking the entire thing.

  Tinsel Korey

  Thinking, Momentum, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I know when the anthrax thing hit - white people, y'all was very nervous. Y'all would come up to me at work and warn me, like 'Oh my God, Aries, be careful. Don't open your mail.' Let me tell you something - black folks was never worried about anthrax because, half the time, we don't open our mail no way. We might think that's a bill. We might hold it to the light and go, 'That's a red slip.' If you want to get us with anthrax, put that in a Jay-Z CD. That's how you get us.

  Aries Spears

  Thinking, Cds, White

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• And turkeys are a bird. A very nervous bird. You'd be nervous too if you knew that one day you'd get your head cut off and... filled with stuffing.

  Bob Saget

  Cutting, Turkeys, Bird

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• Whenever I feel nervous, I feel like I have to poop.

  Kendra Wilkinson

  Poop, Feels

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• New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

  Lucius Beebe

  New York, Hilarity, Babylon

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• I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.

  Andy Kindler

  Couple, Years, Holocaust

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• When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Would Be, Pace, Firsts

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• I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.

  Asa Butterfield

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "Press Conference Interview With Asa Butterfield On Ender’s Game". wegotthiscovered.com.

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• Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Strong, Games, Quality

  "Big Think Interview with Anatoly Karpov". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. May 17, 2010.

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• What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

  Deepak Chopra

  Nervous System

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• It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.

  John Cage

  Blood, Years, Two

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• I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

  Denzel Washington

  Two, Hours

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• I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Stage, Fright, Has Beens

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