Cressida Bonas Quotes

Playing in attack is difficult. You are under scrutiny, and you have to be able to deal with that.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

You can't help but be scrutinized, so I might as well be doing something while I'm being scrutinized.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

It's tough being the one person on the hot seat.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

People single you out when they think you're not giving your all. When they see you giving it all you have, they don't get on your case.

As a player you get scrutinised and rightly so, sometimes it's what comes with a move that I've made. I've just got to take that on the chin and concentrate on me.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

Sometimes you get looked at harder than other people. I can take the criticism and I can take the heat.

Any goalkeeper that's going to play for Liverpool is going to be looked at and scrutinised - every shot, everything about it is going to be scrutinised.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

Greatness is its own torment.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Being an NFL quarterback there's a lot of advantages that come with it. There are a lot of doors that open when you're a quarterback but at the same time there's a lot of scrutiny. There are a lot of things you can't do as well.

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

If you ask any of the other actors, they'd probably say nice things because they're nice people, but I was always like, "Oh gosh, I hope I'm doing this right." I was very hard on myself, and I continue to be. That's why it's sometimes hard for me to digest watching myself on television. There is some pressure.