Toby Jones Quotes

I want to keep doing as much work as I can, and I want to keep the level high. I'm wondering if something is going to happen to me to screw it up.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

Pressure has always been more of a friend than a foe for me with songwriting.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

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.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

Me, personally, I thrive under pressure.

There are times when I do feel very nervous when I start a film. And I feel very nervous before the release. I do get stuck in some scenes, but that's very natural and human. It happens to all the artistes in the world.

I like to believe I perform better under pressure and at the last minute.

I don't pay any attention to records. I don't want pressure. I just want to get to that line.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

Any motivation starts with some type of doubt.

I work better under pressure.

The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside.

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.