Petra Kvitova Quotes

I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

I feel the pressure.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

There is an awful lot of pressure on me.

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I didn't handle success all that well.

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

It stresses me out if I mess up.

Some days you realise that everything is a burden, both physically and mentally. That it's not about fun, but you have to deliver without a doubt. Even if you are injured.

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

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

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.