Quotes About Expectations

If you grow up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as I did, 5:30 means 5:30.

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

If I had a penny for every time I've been asked if I'm going to work in America.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

Sometimes I get the feeling that some parents really think their son can pay for their pension, especially being in London.

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.

My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your minds up.

Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

I finish the game, and sometimes I don't play very well, and my grandmother calls up to ask why I haven't played well. Instead of being criticised by Pep, it's my grandmother!

Playing for Pep has certainly lived up to the expectations. I knew him from the Bundesliga and saw him coaching Barcelona when everyone saw an excellent manager who is able to get players to improve. He is a great personality and a very nice guy.

When you touch the ball 400 times per game, it's normal that you can lose the ball a couple of times.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them.

I think there is pressure when it comes to the perceived notion that if you are woman in sports you're there for your looks. You cannot try to look nice on TV and also know what you're talking about.

I don't only like R&B. I always love in life when you see people acting in a way that is true and genuine to them but doesn't fit into the perceived notion of how they would respond to something.

Nobody at school would have expected me to be involved in anything that might have been perceived as cool. I was trying to make people laugh all the time, but my dad was the headmaster and I was quite swotty.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.