Quotes About Expectations

To tell you the truth, the nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame totally surprised me. I had no idea that was coming. I know a lot of people like to say it's enough just to be nominated. But I've been nominated for so many things, I'd like to get this one. I think it's a long shot, considering I never had a No. 1 rock n' roll record.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

Your life changes after the limelight is on you. Sometimes, it is easy to get caught up in the nonsense.

Women all think that if a guy likes you he will come and talk to you. That's nonsense - 'actually the opposite is true. The more attractive he finds you, the less likely it is he'll talk to you.

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

I know that in Senegal, the fans and the media are demanding, and that is normal.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.'

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'

Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

I wanted to be just a normal girl flirting with a normal guy. It's like, you meet people, and they know this stuff about you. It's why you want to meet somebody who's in the same business, only because they understand more. But you don't necessarily want to be with another actor.

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

People like to see certain actors do certain things, and people like to see me play that role. I also have no interest in playing a normal girl in a romantic comedy in some cutesy thing.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

In the NBA, you always have to make the right decisions. You should feel free to live a normal life, but you really can't.

I want to get married and live a normal life. Not a celebrity life.

I tried all my life to be a normal person.

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.