Ruth Wilson Quotes

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

I don't know what pressures there are these days.

When I was in high school, there was a lot of pressure on me. I felt like I had to be perfect.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

Stressing out over how you look, what you're wearing, or when you're getting home is not worth it.

I feel less pressure to dress for the eyes of other people now. I think that happened once I started modelling, near the end of high school.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

Being in school, whenever I laughed or smiled, I would turn to find someone staring at me with this terrible hatred and disgust. I had to control everything - control my voice, control my facial expressions, control my hair and my clothes, and where I walked and where I sat - at every moment. I think that drove me to terrible anxiety.

One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.

Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which Mrs. Colonel Wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

I think that people assume when they meet me that I'm going to judge what they're wearing.

I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.

Honestly, I felt pressure more when I was a lot younger.

No matter how much you urge them to relax and how much you mean it, your child probably grapples with highly stressful environments away from home, whether it's where they go to school, the teams they play on, or the peers in their social circle. Most teenagers I know long for empathy from their parents about their struggle.

When I was in the closet, I had so much pressure on my shoulders. When I came out, that was actually the first moment I felt relieved of those stresses. It really showed in my skiing.

I hate being judged.