Nervousness quotes

“That dame is too uptight. What she needs is a good screw from a man who knows how to do it.”
Humphrey Bogart On Bette Davis

“If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.”
Rachel Ticotin

“I'm just like a little boy, playin' with his dick when he's nervous.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Kirk Lazarus

“- Tobin Frost: Do I make you nervous?
- Alec Wade: Always.
- Tobin Frost: Good.”
Denzel Washington - Tobin Frost
Liam Cunningham - Alec Wade

“- Lloyd Christmas: I feel like a schoolboy again. A schoolboy who desperately wants to make sweet, sweet love to you.
- Mary Swanson: I thought I heard you talking to someone.
- Lloyd Christmas: [now extremely nervous] Mary... I... I desperately want to make love to a schoolboy.”

Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas
Lauren Holly - Mary Swanson

“- Fozzie Bear: I'm so nervous. If I'm not funny, I won't be able to live with myself.
- Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: Then you'll have to get another apartment, won't you?”
Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear
Dave Goelz - Dr. Bunsen Honeydew

“I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.”
Anna Faris

“Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever.”
Richard Lester

“Of course i’m afraid. But there’s a difference between fear and losing your nerve.”
Diego Luna - Cassian Andor

“You know, telling someone to calm down has literally never calmed anyone down in the history of the universe.”
George Clooney - David Cotton

“Both hands on the wheel, Mr. Jones, I'm a very nervous passenger.”
Sir Sean Connery - James Bond

“I laughed nervously which soothed me.”
François Leterrier - Le lieutenant Fontaine

“They are nervous creatures, ballerinas.”
Paul Henreid - Pierre

“- Starman: I thought guns make you a little bit jumpy.
- Jenny Hayden: You make me a little bit jumpy.”
Jeff Bridges - Starman
Karen Allen - Jenny Hayden

“You'll excuse me, I won't join you. I find adolescence makes you nervous enough.”

Diana Lynn - Lucy Hill

“- Karen Collier: She's gonna have a nervous breakdown.
- Jeremy Collier: I know she wants one. I know she ain't gonna be happy until she has one.”

Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Karen Collier
Emilio Estevez - Jeremy Collier

“- Syd: This is intense...
- Lucy: Is it?
- Syd: I'm not usually like this.
- Lucy: Like what?
- Syd: Nervous.”
Radha Mitchell - Syd
Ally Sheedy - Lucy Berliner

“- Oogway: I understand. You eat when you are upset.
- Po: Upset? I'm not upset. Why, what makes you think I'm upset?
- Oogway: So why are you upset?
- Po: I probably sucked more today than anybody in the history of kung fu. In the history of China. In the history of sucking!”

Randall Duk Kim - Oogway
Jack Black - Po

“Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.”
Megan Fox

“- Mark: I don't suppose you happen to have a cigarette?
- Bridget Jones: No. Gave up 1,891 days ago.
- Mark: Not that you're counting.
- Bridget Jones: Since when did you smoke?
- Mark: I don't. It's been a tense time. Maybe I'm nervous.”
Colin Firth - Mark
Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones

“- Brandon: Lana, you are one cranky girl.
- Lana: Yeah, well, you'd be cranky, too, Mister I'm Going To Memphis Graceland Tennessee, if you were stuck in a town where there's nothing to do but go bumper skiing and chase bats every night of your evil fucking life.”
Hilary Swank - Brandon Teena
Chloë Sevigny - Lana Tisdel

“- Danny McGuire: Don't tell anyone, but I'm nervous.
- Kira: What about?
- Danny McGuire: I haven't had a club opening since... 1945. Wow.
- Kira: Then just pretend it's 1945 all over again.
- Danny McGuire: I don't have to pretend. It is 1945 all over again.”
Gene Kelly - Danny McGuire
Olivia Newton-Jonn - Kira

“I've been speed talking for about sixty kilometers now. I, I talk when I'm nervous, I mean, I, I talk like this when I'm nervous. I'm gonna shut up now.”

Franka Potente - Marie

“I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures.”
Benicio del Toro

“I needed a cigarette. Patches don't work for me, my skin's too thick. Comes from working with bastards like you.”

Ciarán Hinds - Devlin