Entertainment Stress Quotes

I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

I throw up before every show. I'm thinking about just making it part of the act.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.

When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.

There are many problems with being a comedian: the travel, the late nights, the pressure, the fear of running out of funny things to say.

What a sad business is being funny!

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

Of course there's pressure on you whatever timeslot you're doing, but I think there's more pressure on you as you go into the evening and I think being tucked away in a nice teatime arena feels quite nice.

Comedy is actually very hard. It's hard to choose those moments and know when you can really push it, and know when you should be bringing it back and making it more subtle, and knowing as time goes on, as you do take after take and the crowd around you stops laughing. Whenever you do comedy, you realize you're up against - you're performing next to people who you would think are so unbelievably good at it, that that's a bit of a pressure. But at the same time, it's just fun. It's fun to be able to let out that side of you.