Quotes About Expectations

The amount of pressure the guys are under from the English media is fierce.

The director could start shooting the fifth scene first. So while giving take for the scene I need to know what I am expected to do in the first four scenes. Sometimes it gets quite confusing and on television you never know when the channel will change the story or dump the character!

If I am still fighting at 35 I will be disappointed.

One guy might be ranked higher, but it doesn't mean anything. Where these fights go, lots of things can happen.

Sometimes it's kind of strange, and it's definitely something I have to work on in the future, but when I'm big favourite in fights, it's almost like I try too hard and try to force things to happen. That always seems to take a bad turn and makes my performance look bad, even if I win.

I have fights where I thought I'm going to destroy the guy and then I had a very tough fight, I had fights where the guy's a big name and I win in the first minute.

I never did figure on being a college man.

When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be like Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks. I didn't know that people would add hair for more length. I'm like, 'Oh all these people just have natural hair like this.' I obviously grew up and figured out that everyone does something to their hair.

I figured I'd coach two or three years at the most and go back and be an attorney.

I put way too much pressure on myself and put too much into CrossFit. It had become who I was. That's really when I figured out I don't want my identity to be CrossFit.

When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.

I had a lot of trouble with my coaches. Your coaches are father figures - you look to what they say. Well, the reality of it is, they are just shmucks.

I'm 19. I'm in the process of growing up and figuring out where I'm supposed to be in my life. But it is kind of weird when I realize that other people look to me as inspiration.

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress.

Everton have had great centre-forwards in the past - they are big boots to fill.

There's always pressure but I don't feel it. That's why Brentford brought me in. They believed I could fill the shoes of all the strikers that had been in there before.

When I entered the film industry, I hadn't dreamt that I would work in so many movies and opposite so many reigning and future heroes.

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

I have nothing against the film industry, but my mom asked me to do anything but act.

When I started out, at 19, I was told, by the media and the film industry to do a certain kind of films and work with certain kind of stars. Coming from a non-filmi background, I did not know how to go about it, as there were different people trying to push me in various directions.

When I am filming dramas, I lean towards doing what the public wants to see from me.

I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.