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  • I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it. -- Jessica Chastain
  • Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions. -- S.R. Ford
  • There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you. -- John C. Reilly
  • Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it. -- Richard Lester
  • When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. -- William James
  • I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary. -- Vince Young
  • Nervousness made her feel nauseous, almost like she had two hearts frantically beating in her chest, instead of one. -- Caroline Hanson
  • I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness. -- Mike Birbiglia
  • If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death. -- Paul Lynde
  • I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person. -- Michaela Watkins
  • I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. -- John Green
  • The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles. -- Mike Leigh
  • I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness. -- Susanne Bier
  • It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake. -- Joseph Pilates
  • What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness. -- George D. Prentice
  • Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun. -- James Maslow
  • I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be. -- Christina Aguilera
  • IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?' -- Emma Watson
  • My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness. -- Josh Brolin
  • Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure. -- Thomas Wolfe
  • The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting. -- Gautama Buddha
  • It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system. -- Goran Ivanisevic
  • Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home. -- Glenway Wescott
  • I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there. -- Lights
  • Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel. -- Albert Goldman
  • As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line. -- Dontrelle Willis
  • DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand. -- Barbara Sher
  • When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression. -- Jeremy Griffith
  • It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement. -- Ben Brantley
  • I can be completely spontaneous, which is absolutely wonderful. I don't like it at the same time; no one wants to be nervous all the time, but that nervousness mixes with the excitement I feel on the stage, and it makes for a wonderful performance. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
  • In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost. -- George Foreman
  • The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness. -- Salvador Bernal
  • I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness. -- James Earl Jones
  • We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate. -- Geneva Overholser
  • Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born. -- Judy Woodruff
  • I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious. -- Rick Rubin
  • Work is a form of nervousness. -- Robert Benchley
  • Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children -- RZA
  • Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children -- RZA
  • To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness, -- Mike Birbiglia
  • Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see. -- Pauline Kael
  • The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness. -- Mark Shields
  • Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest. -- Jentezen Franklin
  • You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. -- Stephen King
  • Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident. -- Raphael Soyer
  • Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time. -- Maxwell Maltz
  • For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time. -- Gertrude Diamant
  • His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back. -- S. Elle Cameron
  • Its fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system. -- Goran Ivanisevic
  • Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time. -- Pablo Casals
  • I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure. -- Judith Hill
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