Lil Dicky Quotes

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

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

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

When you are successful, there is the pressure of performing consistently; when you are not, there is the pressure of coming back and doing well.

Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.

Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

The blessing of having your first project be something as fantastic as 'Girls' is that it gave me room to be selective because I didn't feel pressure to do other things. The curse is that my standards were really high.

We know that if you have a good game, you are God, and if you misplace five passes in a row, they want to kick you out of Madrid. You have to find the middle ground.

You're damned in success a little bit.

I'm always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it's the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night's show: Until they're over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It's hard for me to enjoy the moment. I'm just thinking about not failing.