Quotes About Pressure

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

That's my biggest fear – disappointing those people who look up to me.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.