Quotes About Expectations

When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

I married a man who convinced me that he loved me, who looked lonely and who I thought had the same ideas about life and the same goals, but we were just too different.

There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.

People always meet me and go, 'You're so much cooler than I thought you'd be,' and I'm like, 'What did you expect me to be like?'

There will always be a lot of pressure to cope with.

The pressure is always there with Bayern, but we can cope with it.

When you sign a contract with a club like Barca, that's what you have to cope with. You have to show your face when you've lost games. I knew that when I came into the job.

I don't think I could cope with being David Schwimmer-ly famous.

Everyone wants to beat Manchester United, but that's something that we are used to coping with.

I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

I never thought I would be married at 23, but that's the fun thing about life - you don't know what is waiting for you at the next corner.

If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apollo,' then you're not a man's man.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

I know a lot of athletes, they want to play until their 45 or 50 or whatever, some athletes claim, but count me out on that.

It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

When they take you with the eighth pick, I don't want to say pressure, but you've got a lot of people counting on you.

When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.

I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.

Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'

I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.