Emotional Pressure Quotes

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode.

Coaches do get very nervous.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Mommy. It's just the one thing you don't want to mess up.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage – all red, smiling from ear to ear. So I don’t want to mess up, [be]cause she’s smiling. Seeing my mom happy is kind of like an overwhelming feeling.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.

London was my first Olympics, but I tried for three beforehand. I was measured for the Olympic uniform three times before London, and I finally made the team. It was a big deal, and it was quite emotional, which is probably one of the reasons I didn't perform at my best.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

Maybe there is something wrong with me as I don't feel any pressure or fear.

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.

Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you can be so that they turn out well. And that requires that you be a really great, evolved, aware person in every moment. Which is pretty awesome. But it's also putting tremendous pressure on yourself--which is why women feel so guilty!

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.

An actor should never be influenced by the surroundings, because you have to submit completely, and trust me, it's not a good feeling when you know that your father is going to come and watch you work every day!

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.