Quotes About Expectations

It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

You can do as much training, the hardest training, and you might get there and not perform how you wanted, not because of lack of training but maybe the pressure you are putting on yourself. That's a major part of being a resilient athlete - it's not just physical, it's mental.

I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure I was not trying just to respond to other people's expectations and that I really wanted it myself. I realized that I just loved tennis, that it was something extraordinary, that I would really want to do that.

I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

To be in the France team means they have a number of duties and responsibilities.

When people love your work, your responsibilities grow.

I know there is a lot of pressure on a goalie, a lot of responsibilities, but if you add on to yourself more than you need to, it makes it harder to deal with the adversity.

That's what frees up an actor: when you don't have to be responsible to likability.

Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.

I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.

I think one of the worst things to ever happen to American man is that he was told he was going to retire at age 65.

People have a weird idea of what happens with a successful series. After it's over they think we just retire to green pastures. Well, it ain't so.

I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.

When I became an actor, I knew that there were only two ways of going about it - either I become an actor who has expectations, or the reverse of it.

I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them.

No other industry appears to reward failure more than football's managerial merry-go-round.