Quotes About Expectations

People thought that I had all the money in the world and that I was this little perfect princess posing with her hand on her hip and her blonde hair and her curls.

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

It's kind of embarrassing, but in my early 20s, I used to want to be a princess. But I didn't want to have to marry somebody in order to do it!

People imagine that everything is easy when you're a princess, but we're still human beings. Some of my friends don't want to go out with me anymore - to go to a restaurant, I have to use a different door.

When I came back from my honeymoon, I was informed that it was not appropriate for a princess to be involved in trade. This came from the court. What about my income? That was my problem, I was told.

I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

At the height of my career, prior to the injuries, I never thought I could break the barrier of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray, and now I did it with everything that happened.

You work for the WNBA. Obviously, they want us to prioritize the WNBA as being No. 1 on our list, but the reality is other people are paying the bills. That's the way it is.

There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority.

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

In Italy, so long as you are not criminal, they couldn't care less about your private life. It's when you lose a football match that they criticise you - a lot.

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

Fans don't care what's in your private life, what happened in your past, where you come from. If you don't perform, they judge.

I thought I was prepared for England but I was not prepared for things outside football, my private life. I am not very proud that fans could probably name three of my former girlfriends. I don't think it damaged my football results. But my image outside football it damaged, yes.

I definitely think people think celebrities have it easy. I think they have it twice as hard as someone going to a nine-to-five sitting in an office because they can keep their private life to themselves.

Having pressure is a privilege.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

I am privileged and very happy to be a professional sportsperson, but should that make people so angry?