Quotes About Expectations

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.