Quotes About Intensity

My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

It's good when you're out there on a tennis court. There's nowhere to hide. It's all you, tactically, physically, mentally.

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

Any time you go into the playoff game everyone's adrenaline is high and tensions are going, stuff like that.

In playoffs, it's so emotional and the tension's really high and guys are laying everything on the line. And when you do that, things get chippy and guys are playing aggressively, and I think it just comes out in the playoffs a little more. When you know what's on the line and what you're expected to do, it just comes out.

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!