Quotes About Expectations

The pressure of TV can force people to do odd things.

Alan Shearer came in at a time when he was one of the only people on this planet who could have kept Newcastle up and he did a fantastic job in everything else but the odd result not going his way.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg again - I don't know what the odds are.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.

I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.

If I met a girl, I'd tell her straight up, 'I might run into someone else I want to go out with; don't be offended.' Was that acceptable to them? It had to be. There were enough girls. They were expendable.

Jay Cutler is a first-round pick, had a great arm, etc. It's just - he's offense, I'm defense. We didn't get a chance to interact as much as we should have, maybe.

We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.

Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office.

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered.

In the industry, once people see you in a certain mold, you start getting offered only those kind of roles.

Before 'Rangeela' happened to me, all that was offered to me were song-and-dance roles.