Quotes About Expectations

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.