Quotes About Pressure

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

In those days there was not so much pressure on us.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.