Quotes About Expectations

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend to give more of the benefit of the doubt because they're only 90 minutes or two hours. But books, there is this thing of, 'It's a book. I've got to finish it.'

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

When I was finishing guys, the media was on me like crazy.

Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do it, and my only goal was really not to get fired off of it.

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.

You coach long enough, you're gonna get fired.

Some coaches get fired even after the best years they've ever had.

That's what drove me crazy is people would say - even people who would try to be nice would be like, it's not different than when a dad hires his son at a law firm. I said, it's not the same thing. You can't be given an NBA job. I got drafted.

I got my first job by exceeding expectations.

My first job out of college was at PBS as an administrative assistant. I thought I would be on the production side of things.

I never thought anyone would come up to me and say, 'I like 'Better Call Saul' better than 'Breaking Bad.'' If you had asked me before we started, 'Would that bother you if someone said that?' First of all, I would have said, 'That's never gonna happen. And yeah, it probably would bother me.' It doesn't bother me a bit. It tickles me. I love it.

I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That's why divorce is so big. We all want it to last, but that's not always the reality of it.

All these expectations on me exist because of me in the first place.

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

Don't try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They're not going to change.

It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.

Love is a competition. If you don't think so, then you're crazy, because why are you dressing up, why are you wearing those heels, why are you wearing that $400 perfume? Why are you shaving your chest and eating 40,000 egg whites?

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'