I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do - that's the part I'm nervous about.
Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.
People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
I still see myself on TV and think, 'Oh my God, I'm on a television, and there are millions of people watching,' and I get really nervous and embarrassed and insecure.
Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
You get nervous when you're identified with something that is really great and positive for so long. You don't want to not be that person, but there are going to be other roles in your career.
I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.
I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.
I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.
