I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

- Alex Turner

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

- Alison Lohman

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

- Alan Shearer

There were two auditions for 'The Social Network,' one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, 'Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?'

- Armie Hammer

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

- Ashley Judd

I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time.

- Allison Tolman

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.

- Ashley Madekwe

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

- Art Buchwald

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

- Andy Murray

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

- Andrew Ross Sorkin

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

- Adele

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

- Amy Winehouse

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

- Amy Tan

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

- Amanda Seyfried

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

- Alexander Hamilton

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

- Alan Rickman

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

- Adriana Lima

If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.

- Adriana Lima

I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

- Adele