Quotes About Pressure

Rather than enjoying my success I was stressing about it. Wanting it, but at the same time I couldn't handle the consequences. I was intimidated by people.

Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

Media is set up to give information to the people - at least that's what it says. But we all know in the U.S. that media is a capitalistic system, people are getting paid to write things, they have bosses and editors, and they have bosses, and they put pressure on people to write intriguing stories that catch the eye.

When you're in the city, all you see is people. It gets more competitive, people become more introverted.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

I was 18 and had an inverted light bulb moment where I thought that nothing I could do or say or how I looked was ever going to be good enough.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

I'm always in awe at how fast television is and how quickly you're called upon to be 100 percent invested in a character with the lines.

Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.

It isn't always simple when America discovers you at 11 years old. Suddenly, it's not just homework that you're responsible for. Your name becomes a hashtag, and if you're lucky, you might even get invited on 'Ellen.'

I've been involved in a couple of atrocious World Cups.

In F1 everything involves money, but there are other details to work on.

We are so fortunate that our IP has been so effective out in the marketplace that every time there's a new iteration, our developers feel a sense of pressure.

During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

I think records are irrelevant, but I'm being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great.

Sometimes in T20, you need to bowl only one over, and once the captain has given you that one over, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, that one over is out of the equation. That actually helps you, that one over. By the time the batsman figures out what you are trying to do, you get rid of one over.

I feel that, irrespective of a hit or flop, there's always pressure on an actor. When you give a flop, there's a pressure to ensure that the next film works, and when you give a hit, you want to keep it going. So, the pressure of success and failure is always there, and that's what keeps me going.

I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

If you are bowling well and not getting wickets, it's not a big issue. Sometimes I am economical, but not getting enough wickets. But if I am not bowling well and not getting wickets, then it's a disturbing thing.

The Italian players, they eat pressure for breakfast, so they grow up with a lot of pressure and they know how to handle it.

Italian managers don't enjoy themselves at all.