Quotes About Expectations

I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside.

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

Coming out of college that's all people kept saying was I couldn't shoot. I shot probably 30-something percent from 3 so they were pretty much on top of that.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

I can't be all things to everyone.

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

You can have an all-star team but not everyone plays at an all-star level.

I often wonder if my relationships don't work out because I am the more Alpha one and the focus is on me and men don't like that.

I can't control who makes the team or not. I'm just happy to be an alternate.

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

Just because you are a good amateur, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good professional.

I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

I'm just feeling that... would I be more nervous having a boy? 100 percent. Because American culture and sports is massive.

I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.

I kind of hate the fact that I feel like people expect you to announce what you are, and then you become it. I would rather become the thing and then name it.

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

It doesn't annoy me that I always get asked about my future.

My kids get annoyed if you ask them what their GCSE results are.

People have wanted me to change and it annoys me. Do we ask Ramos to be someone else? We take him as he is; take me as I am.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.