Quotes About Expectations

It breaks my heart that some of my fans think that because they love me and they idolize me, they have to be just like me and dress like me and act like me.

Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

A lot of people think you go to a top college, you come into the NBA and it'll be all a breeze and easy. It's not like that.

I'm not the perfect bride after all.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

Unfortunately, being a woman in society means that sometimes you have to sort of quell what is instinctually broad and magnificent and magical about you.

Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play.

No one told me that if you can't sing, you probably won't be on Broadway. No one told me that!

My mom wanted me to be like... a doctor, a lawyer. I was with it, being like a lawyer or something, because you make hella money and I wasn't tryna be broke.

There's a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.

My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn't go down that avenue.

To be brutally honest, when you win a title like Miss Universe, your entire life turns topsy-turvy for one year.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.

In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.

We never thought 'Boyhood' was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn't know if anyone would see it or appreciate it.

I don't know if there's ever been a budget that anyone has been 100 percent happy with.

'Soorma' was made on a budget of 22 core and we don't expect it to do a 100 crore business, but it has definitely earned respectable numbers. It's a more performance heavy film with a great story and content.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

I put up O.K. numbers - not Bugs Bunny-style numbers like some other guys - but O.K. numbers.

Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations.

I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those other shows have to live up to.

The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.