Quotes About Pressure

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.

It's strange: I always try to do the best acting job I can do under the imaginary circumstances of my working position at any given time. But it's terrible when you know it's going bad, and you know it immediately. But you just have to still try to do the best job you can.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of people I respect have done it with a real little 'ditty' and that was the end of it - that was all they were ever known for.

There were times at the start of it all when I would be standing, terrified, in front of the cameras and people I considered 'real' actors. I had no idea what was happening, what the guy with the clipboard did, or if people in the studio were looking at me because it was their job to look at me or because they thought I was making a mess of things.

I remember coming in second in a singing competition when I was about 5. I was terrified and didn't win because I apparently looked miserable.

I'm having a tough time coping in showbiz. I'm absolutely terrified of it. Each time you walk out, somebody wants to click a picture.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.

I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.