Quotes About Expectations

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

I always entertain great hopes.

I hope someday when I date my fan, she loves me as a person and not as a famous Greyson Chance

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.