Quotes About Expectations

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.

I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.