Quotes About Expectations

I put pressure on myself to be the best and to carry on the Blanchard name with dignity and with pride.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that's fine. I make movies for the audience. I guess I hope that the critics like it, but on the other hand, I just really want the audience to like it.

Obviously when you do start with a two-shot lead you feel like you should win, but a two-shot lead is nothing really. It can disappear really fast.

I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

I never wanted to disappoint my family at all.

When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.

I wouldn't want to disappoint my family, my friends, my fans.

When your kids disappoint you, you tell them off; you don't give them some chocolate, do you? You treat players similar to how you treat your kids, really.

When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

If I disappoint someone, it's their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don't know me. I can't control what they want.

I'm my own biggest critic, so no matter what was being said in the media or being said by fans, I feel the worst when I disappoint myself.

I feel a great connection with my readers and would never want to disappoint them.

If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to be an artist, then you have to be true to yourself, and you have to be prepared to confront expectations - and you have to be prepared to disappoint your fans, too.