Quotes About Expectations

With my work in 'Mardaani' being well-received, I am more aware than ever that I have to keep the game up. I don't want to disappoint myself as an actor first and let my audience down.

I'm nervous about everything I do with Africa. You almost want it to go good all the time, and you don't want to disappoint.

The only pressure on me is that I should never disappoint my audience.

I hate it when I have to disappoint my fans.

Often I've met people who are famous, and as you get to know them, they disappoint you.

People make assumptions about me based on my music. I've literally had people stop me in the street: 'You are so sweet. I bet you haven't had a bad thought in your whole life!' I'm like, 'Really? I hate to disappoint you!'

If people like you, and you disappoint them, they get very hurt by it.

The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.

For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

When I came to New York for the draft in '89, they told me I should be like 10 and 15, and it didn't happen. So I was very disappointed, like, nobody wants me.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed.

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

Like many of you, I was very disappointed at the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

Never once was it said I was disappointed Peyton didn't win us more than one championship.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I'm pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.