Emily Maitlis Quotes

Reverse-parking in a small space is one of those high-pressure situations where a critical, watching eye becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

High expectations are really intimidating.

I am extremely nervous before anything. People who say they aren't nervous are telling a white lie. Nerves get you going, as you are playing for so much at the highest level.

I've been nervous a number of times. Your first start. Playing in the Super Bowl. Your first Super Bowl. Very nerve-racking. The one thing that you can always fall back on is that you know what you are doing. You know how to play the game.

I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

When you're young and starting out, the big hurdle is to relax enough in rehearsal so that you don't feel intimidated. The more work you've done, the more you can experiment in rehearsal and not have to worry about getting the sack.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

Auditioning is the worst.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

There's a ton of nerves for every fight I've been in; it doesn't matter if it was my debut.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

There's always very high tension with dance auditions! You're in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you'll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

I think people are always nervous for your first game.

I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.

The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.