Quotes About Pressure

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

I have a family to feed.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.