Quotes About Expectations

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

I always tell my mom I don't have regular problems. I have problems, like, what type of girl is going to say they're pregnant by me today? Those are the types of issues I have.

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.

I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.