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Quotes About Pressure

Is it inevitable after a successful film that they're going to ask for another one? Yes. Do we want to rush and do it for that reason? No.
~ Bryan Burk
I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.
~ Cameron Diaz
I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.
~ Carlos Gonzalez
I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.
~ Charles Kelley
We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.
~ Charles Kelley
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.
~ Clifton Collins, Jr.
The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.
~ Craig Stadler
Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.
~ Danny Bonaduce
Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.
~ Danny Boyle
Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.
~ David Campese
Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.
~ David Foster Wallace
People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.
~ Devon Alexander
It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.
~ Dhani Harrison
I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me.
~ Dick Latvala
Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.
~ Don DeLillo
When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.
~ Eli Manning
I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.
~ Elle Fanning
I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
~ Eric Clapton
The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.
~ Ethan Hawke
Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.
~ Freddy Adu
She was thinking about how a mind could turn to stone, the patterns solid and immovable in the face of seemingly unbearable pressures, and the way dust trickled down faint as whispers, unnoticed by any.
~ Steven Erikson
whoever decided that competition is always and without exception a healthy attribute?
~ Steven Erikson