Quotes About Expectations

Gosh, the fans always have something to say. They're never happy with anything.

I remember I took an editorial, and I was so excited. I got the pictures back, and I looked in the magazine, and I was like, 'Oh my gosh!' My arms were half their size, and I had a thigh gap magically, and all these crazy things. My family went out and tried to find my pictures in the magazines, but no one could recognize me.

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

There is always going to be someone who is not going to be happy with me and talk or gossip about me, no matter what I do.

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog.

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

I hope when I am governor and it's all over, I am a governor who underpromised and overdelivered.

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

You've seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven't made the grade.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all.

When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

I always thought I would move to New York after graduation, but, instead, I moved to Los Angeles. I realized I was more scared of that choice than I was of New York, and I thought, at 22, I should get it over with.

If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.