We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.

Olivia Culpo

If the world is in complete flux for me and life is falling apart, if I just manage to get myself in front of a computer or at my desk, it calms.

Abi Morgan

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Alexander Payne

For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I've been able to consistently do over the years. I think it's because it also is sort of a mental exercise and calms you and refocuses you. So I find that that's great, and sometimes someone will drag me to a spin class or on a hike.

Alexandra Daddario

I like someone I can have fun with and who can be more laid-back than I am, because it calms me down.

Ashley Tisdale

Stroking my dog calms me down.

Ben Fogle

Before a game, I prefer R&B and stuff that calms me down, like the Weeknd.

Blake Griffin

Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.

Bozoma Saint John

Despair has its own calms.

Bram Stoker

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

Bryan Procter

Breathing in the proper state gets you into a state where you digest food better and calms your brainwaves down.

Bryson DeChambeau

Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with my mood.

Courtney A. Kemp

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

David Hockney

The first series of 'Open All Hours' came and went without much fanfare because the BBC, in its almighty wisdom, put it out on BBC2, reasoning that it was 'a gentle comedy', better suited to the calms of the second channel than to the noisier, choppier waters of the first.

David Jason

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.

Dmitry Medvedev

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

Drew Barrymore

I suddenly realize why David Attenborough is the giant he is. It is not just his geographic curiosity, not just his anthropological understanding, not just his gift for narration that simultaneously calms the soul and inspires the mind. It is that behind it all there is such a deep thinker.

Emily Maitlis

I meditate and I have cut out red meat. For me it is just breathing techniques, learning to be still, to control your thought processes, it calms you down. It wasn't about dealing with the pressure of games - I've always been all right in matches.

Fabian Delph

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

Gabby Douglas

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.

Isla Fisher

I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.

Jill Biden