Quotes About Expectations

Sometimes you see things in a script, and it doesn't necessarily mean the director sees the same things. And if you think you're going to be making a different film, then that's not gonna work.

Self-censorship has become a part of me. I think because we live in a place where community is very important, family is very important, you feel the weight of how people look at you. Even though I might seem very modern and very liberated, I still have a lot of issues to deal with. I'm scared of how people look at me.

I'm trying so hard to win or make the right play or whatever, that you know, it kind of comes off as being selfish, but I'm not, I'm just used to being the guy.

People would expect me to be this ditzy, bubblegum-pop girl. I was selling myself short.

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that years later we'd be selling out shows.

It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

A sequel is going to be a pressure no matter who directs it. A sequel is only made when the original film works.

There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.

Sequels are scary. And making a sequel to something as good as 'Scanners' is even scarier.

Christopher Miller

Sequels are hard. What people want is to see the first film again for the first time and that simply isn't possible.

If dinner needs to be served to the father, if clothes need to be ironed, parents ask the girl to do it, not the boy. Why? Equality needs to begin at home.

I'm not going to be perfect on the field, I'm not going to be perfect in my postgame answers or any media session.

You can't wicket 5-6 wickets every session.

To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

I'm not setting too many expectations for myself. I'm just trying to create opportunities for something interesting.

There's a difference between setting goals and trying to live in the future before it even happens.

The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

Every parent wants to see their child settle down.