John Galliano Quotes

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.

When you're playing for Real Madrid, even when you're playing well, you're under scrutiny.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

When shots are going for six and you're playing well, everyone is trying to big you up. Mis=hit one, get out, all the negative people come out.

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

When they take you with the eighth pick, I don't want to say pressure, but you've got a lot of people counting on you.

The pressure is always there to do my best. I feel happy that I have an audience that looks forward to my next project. I have to make sure that I deliver.

People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge

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 one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

I think there's a certain amount of pressure depending on how demanding the part is, depending on how great the material is. I feel a certain amount of pressure to rise to the occasion.

We know that if you have a good game, you are God, and if you misplace five passes in a row, they want to kick you out of Madrid. You have to find the middle ground.

I feel as much pressure as anyone does about their work, really. You just want to be productive; only difference is that the work is seen and judged by a few more people.