Quotes About Pressure

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.

It's okay to feel nervous before a competition because it means you care about doing well.

With directing, it's all out there, in the moment and in real-time. The pressure and all of the eyes are on you, and you've gotta do it. That is the place that made me nervous.

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.

I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

With one film after another becoming a hit, nervousness only grows.

There were so many emotions on 'Idol' with nervousness and pressure, but in good ways.

Going on stage is always a process that causes anxiety and nervousness.

People expect you to dribble past 10 players and put the ball in the back of the net.

It's hard as a striker. It's cut and dried. Your job is to put the ball in the back of the net.

At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.

It happens with every batsman; sometimes, despite feeling good in the nets, you don't score runs in the match.

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.

I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.

If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.

Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort of a neutral person. 'Don't do anything to your hair. Don't tell them your age. Don't tell them you're gay. Don't tell them anything that could limit you, specify you as a person.' I always hated that, actually moved out of L.A. because of that.

There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.

I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.

I never stop getting nervous. I'm nervous before every single show.

If you've seen me on 'The Celebrity Apprentice' or 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey,' you know that I find myself in hot situations far more often than I'd like.

I got so famous with so many new people entering my life. You can imagine how it was for an 18-year-old who was playing effortlessly and savouring every moment of my success. I had lost all sense of reality.