Akhil Akkineni Quotes

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

You don't want to disappoint, or feel like you're trying to recreate the magic of something.

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety - expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

Everyone's just looking at you. They're expecting you to win every game, and it's just not possible.

I struggle with perfection.

I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

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.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn't have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

Auditioning sucks!

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.