David Rockefeller Quotes

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.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

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.

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

When you grow up a Matthews, other Matthews are always telling you what you're doing wrong.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

I think it's quite difficult to follow in your parent's footsteps in the same sport.

People are always asking me - because of my family - if I ever feel pressure or feel like I have something to live up to. And having that in the back of my head, I've just learned to be really brave even in the face of feeling ill-prepared.

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

Being a Williams is not easy in this business because the bar is set very high to achieve success. Daddy set some high standards for all of us.

I love to have the pressure of having to win every game, love the pressure of keeping clean sheets every game, no matter if we're 5-0 or 6-0 up.

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.'

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.

People expect star kids to be perfect - horse-riding, fighting.

I have a huge family name to live up to and a huge legacy to live up to. I feel the pressure of that every day of my life, but I feel like it's a blessing and a curse.

It's easy to say that he/she is a star kid and has had it easy in Bollywood, but being a star kid is the real pressure. You have to undergo a lot of pressure, as you are being constantly compared to your parents.

I'm a perfectionist by nature. Then, because I'm so close to Angie it's like I've already got the perfect woman in my life and it's hard for anyone else to live up to that.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.