Quotes About Expectations

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

Entering into the flow of abundance begins when exceeding expectations becomes a way of life.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me.