I find the pressure to be funny when you're being…

“98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

I never felt any pressure to be funny. A lot of the funny stuff I did was more off-the-cuff. I might be bored with…

— Jimmy Bullard

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

— Marsha Thomason

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be…

— Jim Carrey

I was really enjoying playing 'The Sea,' but it is quite an intense and emotional record.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

That pressure of shooting a fragrance campaign can be quite intense, because there's a lot of people involved and the stakes are quite high.

— Stacy Martin

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

— Matthew Fox

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

— Florence Welch

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

— Ari Graynor

I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.

— SZA

“I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.”

— Patricia Gaffney

“As I stood up to walk to the spin room I saw that it was different for this debate. We were surrounded by gossip…

— Donna Brazile

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

— Barbara Walters