If you’re playing someone you care about, it’s tough, and I don’t want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I’m outside tennis. – Eugenie Bouchard
I can’t relax. I’m not happy unless I’m working on stuff. ‘SNL’ is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is. – Fred Armisen
I’m supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race. – Mary Docter
I’m a big movie fan. After a show, if I’m on the bus or a plane, it’s often hard to get to sleep, so I’ll watch a film. An action film can even relax me. – Garth Brooks
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it’s really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process. – Diane Setterfield
You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race. – Emerson Fittipaldi
Being an actor, you have to be working even when you’re not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you’re relaxing in between jobs, you’re just worried that you’re not going to get another job. – Nikki Reed
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn’t work in singing. You have to learn to relax. – Cathy Rigby
If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it’s supposed to be. – Maria Karnilova
I think that I’ve learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more. – Mark Romanek
FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That’s much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it’s almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
When I have an easy run, I like to listen to music and relax. When I have to train hard, I try to simulate race conditions, and in a race, you can’t listen to music. – Francisco Javier Gomez Noya
I don’t relax. I can’t take vacations. I’m obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I’m going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it’s a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop. – Mary Ellen Mark
When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they’ll say the magic thing that you’d been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don’t be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend. – Marshall Curry
I’d like to be a more consistent starter. I’d like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe. – Donovan Bailey
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax. – Eva Green
I work with directors who haven’t had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it’s an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe. – Parker Posey
How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up. – Nick Nolte
I’m trying to stay focused on what I’m doing. I don’t want a whole lot of things going on – people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don’t have those issues. – Nate Diaz
It’s one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. – Dan Simmons
Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy – entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done. – Donald Norman