Quotes About Pressure

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told that they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

Normally as an actress you're constantly worried that people think you don't look good enough. It's just like an unnecessary stress that's just frustrating.