Quotes About Pressure

I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.

For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it. I just, you know, I want it to be a good show, and I want people to get their money's worth.

It's the Masters. If that doesn't get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don't know what does.

I always get nervous before a scene.

The two times I had nervous breakdowns in my life were when I graduated from college and had my first kid.

There's a lot of pressure on a film set that's more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you're nervous about what's going to happen next week.

It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.

The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns - in the little experience I have doing them - is that there's no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.

I think fame makes people a bit nervous.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.