Quotes About Expectations

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of people I respect have done it with a real little 'ditty' and that was the end of it - that was all they were ever known for.

I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.

When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.

I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.

When I got pregnant with my second son, I still hadn't lost weight from the first, and since I came from a long line of overweight people, I was terrified that I was quickly going to become one of them.

Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed their expected learning level at six years old, they are immediately put in the class that ends up working at McDonald's.

As a female, you're always terrified that if you blow it, you've blown it for your whole gender.

After 'Waqt,' I was terrified I'd be offered all the mummy roles.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

Hit shows are very difficult to achieve. You need to have everything just right - that's what's so terrifying.

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

I can only speak for myself, but growing up in the spotlight is not easy at all... but at some stage you have to accept that and realise that it comes with the territory.

In Milwaukee, I was a young player and I didn't get the time that everybody expected, but that comes with the territory.

I think there's a fine line, and once you cross it, you are in a dangerous territory of overhyping your company, your service, and your product and sort of under-delivering. But I think we probably could have been a little more overtly confident in the early days.

I actually thought it was quite nice to feel that I could legitimately take up extra space and not have to apologise for doing so. It goes with the territory and I think you have to embrace your pregnancy otherwise you risk having a terrible time.

The feelings and reaction of the fans goes with the territory and if you're not prepared for that then one should not get involved.

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'