I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
~By Robert Englund ~
It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.
~By Guy Forget ~
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
~By Lyle Lovett ~
I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.
~By Heather Graham ~
I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
~By Ted Demme ~
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
~By Alain Badiou ~
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 ~
I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
~By Clare Short ~
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'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
~By Lee Trevino ~
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
~By Winston Churchill ~
And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.
~By Jim Bolger ~
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 ~
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 ~
A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
~By Dennis Moore ~
As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.
~By David Gower ~
It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian.
~By Elizabeth Pena ~
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
~By LeBron James ~
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
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 ~
I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.
~By Mats Sundin ~
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 ~
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
~By Josiah Strong ~
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 ~
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
~By Annni-Frid Lyngstad ~
It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.
~By Jan de Bont ~
I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.
~By Mark Messier ~
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
~By Brian Clough ~
Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
~By Norm Coleman ~
I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it.
~By Shaun White ~
At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.
~By Hermann Maier ~
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 ~
I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
~By Rachel McAdams ~
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
~By Roy Ayers ~
We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.
~By Ray Brown ~
We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.
~By Wu Yi ~
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 ~
When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
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 ~
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
~By Peyton Manning ~
And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.
~By David Kay ~
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
~By Keith Henson ~
Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.
~By Roy Romer ~
The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.
~By Mary Hart ~
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
~By Earl Wilson ~
The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.
~By Maria Menounos ~
It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
~By Jilly Cooper ~
The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.
~By Amy Alcott ~
There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
~By Dan Rather ~
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've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
~By Jack Henry Abbott ~
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
~By James D. Watson ~
The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.
~By Imran Khan ~
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure.
~By Vivian Campbell ~
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
~By Andy Grove ~
The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.
~By Tim Curry ~
In those days there was not so much pressure on us.
~By Just Fontaine ~
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.
~By Mats Sundin ~
If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
~By Panayiotis Zavos ~
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
~By Ben Bradlee ~
My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
~By Bobby Orr ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
~By Tommy Lasorda ~
There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.
~By Stacie Orrico ~
Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
~By Andrei Sakharov ~
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 ~
Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
~By Kobe Bryant ~
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
~By Imran Khan ~
Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
~By Adam Sandler ~
The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
~By Mark Messier ~
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 ~
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 ~
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
~By Arthur Baer ~
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
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 ~
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 ~
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
~By Eric Cantona ~
Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
~By Lee Trevino ~
If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.
~By Eric Davis ~
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
~By Richard Stallman ~
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
~By Theodore Parker ~
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