Unwanted Pressure Quotes

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.

When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.

Some of my toughest races are people I've known, because it gets more personal than it should be.

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

For me, it's hard to wear a bra the whole entire day if it's got underwire.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

Don't talk to me about getting comfortable. It makes me uncomfortable.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

Raining Gold' is about feeling trapped in a broken dynamic. Feeling so worn out and turned upside down from manipulation can make you feel like you're in a daze.

I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.

I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.

Since I came on the tour so young and I won my first match, I've had a lot of comments like 'You'll be a top player one day.' I got to the point where, as nice as it was to hear that, I almost stopped listening to it. I was almost putting added pressure on myself.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

Most authors writing books like 'He's Just Not That Into You' dream of doing what I was being asked to do. I didn't like it. I'm good at giving advice, but doing it on TV and radio felt wrong, and when people resisted my point of view, I was like, 'Why am I doing this? This was not the plan.' So I stopped. It didn't make me feel good.

I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody.

There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

If things aren't going well there's always going to be pressure that comes with it.