Quotes About Expectations

To be likeable as a woman, it seems, you have to ensure that you're also non-threatening and slightly useless.

If you continue to entertain "boys", don't be upset when you can't find a "man".

Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them.

Don't look for Mrs. Right if all your character demonstrates is you are Mr. Wrong.

So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.

I did a standup show called 'Show Me the Funny,' so from that I got some TV stuff and people would book me for gigs. I wasn't really good enough at that point, so had to catch up with expectations.

I have always told my family that I don't want my birthday to be celebrated and that they shouldn't get me anything, even though if they didn't I'd probably write a standup routine about it.

In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick.

I've never been short of putting high expectations on myself; I've never been short of saying I want to win a Stanley Cup.

We've got lots of time. We're not winning the Stanley Cup in the first exhibition game.

In the juniors, you are kind of a star, but just because you are a good junior doesn't mean you will be a good pro.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

In my mind, I was never going to have the things I wanted if I played music for a living, unless I became a rock star.

The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

I've been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, 'Well, after this movie, you're gonna be the biggest movie star.' I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Being a star is not a job, and that's really important for me say.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Being a star son, everywhere I would go the first question that I would face was When is your debut?' I guess that's why it had to be planned well, for the curiosity that exists about your debut film is the highest and it makes for grand openings.

When you come from a star family in the South, you're expected to be really good in dance and fights. It's really important that you open up as an actor in front of the camera.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

Whether it is a privilege or whether it is a curse, I came into the industry not because I was seeking to be a star or an actor.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.