Tamannaah Quotes

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

I feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

I feel the pressure of getting something right.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

It is always pressure out there when you are favourite for the match.

When I started out playing live, it was different. I felt good about it. Nobody knew who I was. I just opened for so-and-so. Now, I'm playing to people who are coming out to see the band. There's too much attention on the band and me.

With one film after another becoming a hit, nervousness only grows.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

I've got a tough act to follow.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

Getting into Sundance is a certain sort of passport to a level of anxiety I've never experienced, even having had a baby in the NICU for a week. For about ten minutes, you're a world-class director. Then you become an entry-level, harried, low level concierge with absolutely no juice.