Sydney J. Harris Quotes

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

Auditioning sucks!

I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

Auditioning is the worst.

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

I feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn't have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

Sometimes, at parties, people demand I tell a joke. It's like pointing a gun at my feet and telling me to dance.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

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.

The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.

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.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

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

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.