Quotes About Expectations

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

Every kid will tell you that they want you to be real, but that's until you keep it real with them. Then they don't want it real.

I think every season in pre-season you go into it and everyone is saying, 'they'll be strong next season,' but you never know.

It's funny because, based on the music I was making before, if you'd asked me who was the one gatekeeper or influencer whom I'd want to hear my music, I don't think Pharrell would be the first person I'd pick.

Before you have a baby, friends tell you 'sleep now,' and you laugh because you don't think that all those stories could be true. But they are.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard.

And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

I don't go to the afterparties. I think people always feel if I go to the afterparties, they have to behave well, which, after all, is not the point of an afterparty.

What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

I hate being famous. You have no freedom. You can't do anything.

The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.

Some people have their beliefs and what they think is right and wrong in a relationship.

If, as Bayern, you lose 2-0 at Hertha, nobody believes you that you can still be satisfied with the performance.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'