Hank Williams Jr. Quotes

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.

It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.'

There is a somewhat different struggle when one comes from a film family. If you don't work hard enough or are not talented, you won't make it.

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.

When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win.

Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.

I definitely think there is a lot of expectation and pressure being a star's son.

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

I know people expect a lot from me and want to see certain things when I play, but it's not really any pressure for me.

It can be a bit sententious in the Nigerian household, to the point where you feel like with any wrong step you've set yourself back so far. It's like everything has to be done right.

As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.

During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

It's more responsibility for star kids. Instead of having things easy, expectation is higher. They are compared to their parents, and that's unfair.

There's always pressure at a big club.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

No matter what I do, unless I break his records, I'm still going to be Sterling's little brother.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.

I have to be someone; maybe I'm just doing it for my father. When I made a movie, it had to be a hit because when he died, he was a flop director.

The Hart Family is as good of a family as there ever was on the face of the earth, and they've got a lot of kids that were involved in the wrestling part of it.