Sheila Heti Quotes

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.

When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.

In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.

I cannot afford to make mistakes.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.

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.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

The first day of 'Bling Ring,' I was so nervous and freaking out. I'm a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn't predict what would happen.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.