Quotes About Pressure

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

The hardest thing about acting is all of the other things you have to think about besides performing... Your image, your team, networking - not to mention the mental strength you need to be able to stay unaffected by the rejection that every actor experiences.

I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

We had this thing that hometown gigs were the best and the worst because there was this unbearable pressure.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

I don't know that I would say abrasive. In some ways, I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day, and maybe I was insensitive considering the pressures and responsibilities of these jobs.

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?'

I represent a great continent. People ask, Is there pressure on me? I don't feel pressure at all. It's an unbelievable challenge for me, but I feel like I carry the weight of my continent on my shoulders. I want to help the next generation in Africa.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.

I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.

There is a difference going onto the pitch with No. 10 on your back rather than No. 12, and you need to have a clear understanding and be unbelievably prepared for what you are going into and what you will face.

It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and a presidential mandate in the first 100 days of an administration.