Sean Lock Quotes

I feel the pressure of getting something right.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

I'm always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it's the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night's show: Until they're over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It's hard for me to enjoy the moment. I'm just thinking about not failing.

I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

I think pressure exists in a situation only when you are unsure of your talent and people are expecting a lot from you due to your lineage.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.

There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.

The pressure of success is suffocating.

When I begin shooting, I get nervous, as I am under pressure to do my job well.

I lack confidence as an actor.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Auditioning is the worst.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

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.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'