Quotes About Expectations

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.

Sometimes people who seem to have It made complain the loudest when things don't go right and I don't want to be that kind of person.

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that off. You cannot force the brain to make a great song and I'm very scared of doing bad work.

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

You want to be the best at your career, you want to be the best mum, a great wife and all of that. Most of the time, it's not possible. You have to compromise somewhere.

Every girl has a dream - she wants a perfect husband. But that is not possible. There will be ego clashes and one has to compromise.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

You can make loads of great saves, but if you concede, it's, 'That's what we will show the world.'

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

I don't take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.

I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means.

When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'

At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.

I recognize out of the box that I am not the establishment candidate. There's nothing about me that would have anybody draw the conclusion that I am somehow preordained for anything.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

My father had sent me to Chennai on the condition that if I didn't make it in two years time, I had to be back in Coimbatore, find myself a job and settle down.

Because my career has gone so fast, I haven't been able to become confident.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I always wanted to create my own musical world. That takes time and must be earned, and it does mean sometimes confronting the expectations of the audience.