Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes

Me, I don't want to put the pressure on myself.

I'm not one to put a lot of pressure on myself.

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 don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.

Pressure is self-inflicted.

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

I try to be me. I don't have anything to hide.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

I just have to be myself, and not worry about everyone looking at me and watching.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.