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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.
I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!
I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.
I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess.
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.
If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think you're really alive.
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.
We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.
I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.
Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.
Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!
If practice and preparation were all it took to prevent nerves on the course, tour players would never get rattled.
You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.
but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know.
I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.
I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.
Right before I go out, we usually put on some Lauryn Hill or Fugees, and I'll do a shot of tequila just to calm my nerves.
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
Every young lad's dream is to play for England, but when you get the chance, there's bound to be pressure and a few nerves.
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
I have no nerves at all about singing or playing stuff... and if I can have a cup of tea nearby, then I'm very much at home.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath.
If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?