Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
Everyone has jitters in their first fight.
At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
My first experience playing for England was very scary and nerve wracking.
When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.
I came to the conclusion over time that Trump is not the person I feared he was in the beginning when I was against him.
I always thought the name of my first book would be 'The Insecure Chef,' because when I started cooking, I was so nervous.
Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.
I was required to jump from a parachute into a lake and for this I was dangled in the air 100 feet above the ground with the help of a harness. It was scary in the beginning as I had never attempted such a thing before.
I loved the speed of go-karting, but didn't have a lot of natural talent. The first time I went out on the track I found it scary; other karts were flying past and bumping into me.
When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.
Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.
I did [Michael Cimino] first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and I remember I was still in my twenties and very nervous, we're shooting up in Montana, and I'm thinking, "What the hell am I doing here? I don't feel anything like this part.
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
The first day working with my father was nerve wracking. I was terrified that I would embarrass him or he would embarrass me and it was probably one of the more tortuous days of my life. After the first day was under our belt, it was a great opportunity and I'll always look back on that experience fondly.
I was definitely very intimidated, but the instant Meryl Streep said 'Hi' to me, it all went away.
When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.
