William Sanderson Quotes

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

I really wish I worried less.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

If you are anxious, if you doubt yourself, if you stress over everything, it ultimately means you really care about what you do.

I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.

You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.

Me, I don't want to put the pressure on myself.

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

There was a time where I was such a perfectionist even if I made the kick, but that's no way to live. I can tell you what, that will drive you crazy. I'm very hard on myself, but if the ball goes in a little bit left of the middle, you're not going to hear me crying about it.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

My shrink said to me once when I used to get really overwhelmed and super depressed because I was really run down between kids and the company and there was just so much going on - she said, 'You know, you have to look after you in order for you to look after everybody else.'

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.