Quotes About Expectations

A broke man's lover doesn't feel 'loved' on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine's Day.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning.

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.

I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.