“It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder. You say, 'Well, I'll get all screwed up and then it'll be a real challenge again.' So stupid—I've often wondered why people do these things. You're so much happier if you don't, but I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.”

— John Belushi

Source: Bob Woodward. Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. p. 209 ; Form interview in Cosmopolitan, December 1981, according to: Robert Andrews (2003), The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. p. 144

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