Quotes About Expectations

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.

I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it's sunshine.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

You cant please all the people all the time.

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.

There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.