Allison Williams Quotes

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

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.

People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!

At the beginning of the first season, you don't have that pressure to perform at 100 per cent, because it's always hard when you first start. But now, in the second season, people are expecting big things from you, so you can't really disappoint them.

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

Obviously, when you get into larger budgets, you have less of that freedom, and I just - I'm not a person that tends to make stories for those larger budgets. To me, it's not much fun to have that kind of pressure.

Bayern are a club where success is demanded, and second place isn't particularly appreciated. We have a history and culture to respect.

We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.

It's important to get a good start at a top club like Real. When things are going badly, you can overcome it quickly at a top club.

It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.'

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

It can be a bit sententious in the Nigerian household, to the point where you feel like with any wrong step you've set yourself back so far. It's like everything has to be done right.

When I'm tough on myself, I'm never satisfied.

During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

I've talked to other players that have been to the Super Bowl and about what happened the next year. Everybody becomes stars. Everybody feels like, 'I'm the man.'

The problem is that we set the bar so high, and our stuff is so good, it's tough to top.

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

Not every young player is going to succeed at Barca.

The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.

If you play at a world-class team like Chelsea, you have to perform every day.