To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects. ~By Dario Argento ~
There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way. ~By Geri Halliwell ~
I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy. ~By Paul Simon ~
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. ~By Robert Frost ~
I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country. ~By Bill McCollum ~
I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue. ~By David Cameron ~
I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway. ~By Kathleen Turner ~
The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. ~By Ted Danson ~
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. ~By Carl Bernstein ~
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. ~By Andrew Denton ~
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything. ~By Carl Yastrzemski ~
I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked. ~By Leelee Sobieski ~
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring. ~By Tim Roth ~
I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way. ~By Hilary Duff ~
I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service. ~By Markus Wolf ~
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. ~By Andrzej Wajda ~
There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so. ~By John Barry ~
Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure. ~By Dianne Wiest ~
You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race. ~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity. ~By Robert Casey ~
With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer. ~By Lee Haney ~
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. ~By Robert Wyatt ~
So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level. ~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests. ~By Earl Blumenauer ~
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. ~By Dan Rather ~
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~By Peter Marshall ~
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ~By Elsa Maxwell ~
It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying. ~By Ben Folds ~
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me. ~By Bea Arthur ~
All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. ~By Sebastian Coe ~
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one. ~By Benicio Del Toro ~
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure. ~By Paul Gillmor ~
'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party. ~By Richard V. Allen ~
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better. ~By Nicholas Stern ~
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them. ~By Deborah Cox ~
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. ~By Richard Stallman ~
I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure. ~By Richard Krajicek ~
Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me. ~By LaToya London ~
The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure. ~By Douglas Wood ~
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic. ~By Anthony Holden ~
It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder. ~By John Belushi ~
My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now. ~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything. ~By Ashley Judd ~
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that. ~By Adam Sandler ~
Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. ~By Theodor Herzl ~
The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries. ~By Mark Crispin Miller ~
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region. ~By Orrin Hatch ~
When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. ~By David Talbot ~
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. ~By Felix Bloch ~
It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view. ~By Gerry Beckley ~
I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker. ~By Kamisese Mara ~
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. ~By Ariel Sharon ~
I was putting all those pressures on myself. ~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress. ~By Tom Berenger ~
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with. ~By Markus Wolf ~
There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show. ~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. ~By Laurent Fabius ~
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself. ~By Armistead Maupin ~
The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like. ~By Mike Myers ~
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results. ~By Aaron Klug ~
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. ~By Ville Valo ~
Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best. ~By Takeru Kobayashi ~
The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there. ~By James De La Vega ~
My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me. ~By Bobby Orr ~
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. ~By Charles Kuralt ~
Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that. ~By Sarah Chalke ~
A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned. ~By Donna Rice ~
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly. ~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it. ~By Abdurrahman Wahid ~
If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him. ~By John W. Holt, Jr. ~
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. ~By Denis Johnson ~
And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure. ~By Vivian Campbell ~
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic. ~By Natasha Richardson ~
I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me. ~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under. ~By Henry L. Stimson ~
I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful. ~By Kenny Dalglish ~
Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby. ~By Bobby Hull ~
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it. ~By Michael Bay ~
Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. ~By Jack LaLanne ~
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it. ~By Vanessa Carlton ~
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well. ~By Cal Hubbard ~
When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do? ~By Miguel Cabrera ~
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off. ~By Jeff Daniels ~
The free world is really helping Lebanon restore its sovereignty. I imagine there is quite a bit of pressure on Syria to leave. I hope they leave in a peaceful way. ~By Camille Chamoun ~
Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over. ~By Michael C. Hall ~
For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can. ~By Jay Hernandez ~
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. ~By Robert Redford ~
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. ~By Philip Zimbardo ~
And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure. ~By Imran Khan ~
If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that. ~By John Robinson ~
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. ~By Desi Arnaz ~
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist. ~By Rahm Emanuel ~
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. ~By Shirin Ebadi ~
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle. ~By Matt Dillon ~
It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive. ~By Jan de Bont ~
Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure. ~By Ziyi Zhang ~
If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. ~By Peter Mandelson ~
If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure. ~By Joe Rogan ~
There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter. ~By Hermann Maier ~
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