Top 112 Uptight Quotes & Sayings

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

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

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.

I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

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

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

Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.

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!

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'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

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.

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

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 don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

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

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

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

Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

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

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

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

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.'

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

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.

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.

Everything I know about the FBI came from movies! Right? The idea of these kind of uptight, conservative guys whose ties are tied too tight.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.

Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.

I'll definitely pay attention to someone who is critiquing the artwork. But as far as someone not thinking street harassment is a big deal or that I'm being uptight? I don't think that's a valid critique.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.

People who are too uptight make me nervous.

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

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

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.

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.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I think that what makes you cool at the end of the day is letting go, not being superficial or uptight, and being different.

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.

To make a squirrel look less uptight, put tiny sunglasses on it.

German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.