Inner Pressure Quotes

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

I've always been very hard on myself, it's the way that works with me.

I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.

I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.

I'm never satisfied with anything. It can make things hard for myself, but it also pushes me.

Nobody's expectations are going to be more than mine.

A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest.

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.

I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.

Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

The pressure I give myself from within is what drives me.

I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.

I definitely think I put more pressure on myself. I can be hard on myself and super-critical and very rarely satisfied or happy. I am my biggest critic.