Quotes About Pressure

It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.

You know why stardom screws up people ? Because it gives you too many choices. As a 20-year-old I was making as much money as, well, as much money as it was possible for a 20-year-old to make in India. That sort of thing could drive people nuts. But I put my in money in the bank.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Child stardom is a really hard thing. It can really lead to bad things, and I think a lot of people have gone through that.

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people's children stars.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!

Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

When I was named captain under Mark Sampson, there were a lot of questions about whether I was ready for it. I wasn't a certain starter. There were more experienced players than me; I was only 25. I was trying to nail down a centre-half spot, and it was a difficult situation.

It's true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.

I think people get hung up on starters and 11s, and that number kind of rings through a lot of media's heads.

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.