Top 30 Uptight Quotes

The work that I do doesn’t make me feel uptight, It energises me.

The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we’re going to become so uptight that we can’t say nice things to each other, then we’ve had it!

You don’t want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don’t matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I’m really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

Hey, I learned early the game of football is just that, a game, and you can’t get too uptight. If things get too terrible, you can always go out and get another job somewheres else.

I graduated from high school in ’62 and I didn’t know any people who were gay. I’m sure there were people, but I didn’t know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

In the ’70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It’s much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn’t as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I’m limited as to what I can do on film.

I started off liking uptight music and then discovered Pink Floyd and Hendrix.

I definitely need a girl that has a good sense of humor because there are some girls that are just very uptight.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

I’m certainly not an uptight home owner.

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don’t want to name.

It takes all kinds to make the world go ’round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Friends were always trying to get me to do sexy photographs, but I was a little too uptight.

I have the feeling we are the most uptight nation that ever walked this earth.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don’t have to prove anything at this point other than what I’m doing.

I was a Christian. I didn’t want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

It’s fine to admit being nervous – after the event. But if you tell people you’re uptight before the game, it can be like, ‘That guy’s got problems. We can’t trust him.’

I get a little uptight if things aren’t going the way I think they should be going.

We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, ‘Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don’t be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.’

You don’t want to get nervous or uptight. Nobody plays well that way.

I’m quite relaxed – I know it’s important not to get too uptight about things as a dancer, but when it came to my voice I realised that everything you eat, everything you drink affects it.

It just so happens that people aren’t doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn’t necessarily mean that there aren’t aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

If I could give my younger self some advice at that time, I’d tell her to enjoy the ride and don’t be afraid to ask questions. I was quite responsible, uptight, and worried – I’d tell myself to chill out.

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

Practically everybody knows what it’s like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

I like someone who doesn’t take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.

After ‘Mad Men,’ I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn’t interested in doing. I didn’t want to repeat myself.