Marie Windsor Quotes

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

Auditioning is the worst.

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.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.