Jeff Lindsay Quotes

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

Building up expectations, creating unrealistic time frames, feeling like our end goal is the end all, be all can all lead to frustration or anxiety. We end up feeling as though we have to power through what we want rather than enjoy the process and just let the result come as it may.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I have to prove myself five times over.

I wake up every morning and have a pile of problems.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

I am tired of hustling.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

There were a coupla times when I had had it. And when I'm pushed to the limit, I scream.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.