Quotes About Pressure

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

You know, women are burdened with all this other crap all the time, like looking good. You need to be really superhuman to be successful as a woman.

People shave their heads all the time.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.