Quotes About Expectations

When audience expect only humorous roles from me, my roles will become cliche and predictable.

When you're in one of the biggest media markets and you have a good team and you're predicted to do well, if you struggle at any point, they're going to come after you. Even when you're playing well, you're not winning by enough.

Each year when the A-level results come out, thousands of students and their families settle down to deal with the implications - positive or otherwise - of the fact that their actual grades differ from those they had predicted by their schools.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.

It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.

In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

We are genuinely in a world that criticises women even when they are going through the biggest physical challenge of their life: pregnancy.

It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.

I want to have my children, but I don't want to look like I have them. You're not really allowed to say that. Some days I go, 'It is what it is.' But sometimes I carry it around like a shame that I've gained so much weight while I was pregnant, and I lost control.

I have no problem being full-term pregnant and do not understand women who say, 'I can't wait to get this baby out of me!'

I'd like to maybe be a judge. I could be pregnant and judge. I just can't be pregnant and dancing!

When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.

The funny thing is that, for some reason, people think when you're pregnant, you have to start wearing maternity wear and wear flats and look Mom-ish. I don't know exactly what people expect of people who are pregnant, but there's definitely a lot of moms out there that look super fabulous all the time, and I guess that's my inspiration.

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

A part of me isn't like those women who love being pregnant. I love my baby, and I miss that feeling of being attached to him when he's kicking, but I was so ready to not be pregnant.