Quotes About Expectations

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

The scalpel won't make you happy.

After films like 'Happy Days' and 'Kotha Bangaru Lokam,' I should have been flying high, but my career didn't quite turn out that way.

The 'Bachelor' franchise does believe in happy endings - some people get an on-camera happy ending, some people get on off-camera happy ending, and some people get both.

Sometimes it's hard to admit, though, especially if you're known as a happy person, because you feel you're letting people down if you're not being happy 24 hours a day.

I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.

It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.

Being the front guy is a hard job.

Especially in writing love stories, there's always the assumption that once you've said 'I do,' once you get to the point where you're married, well, the hard part is over.

In this business, if you lose, you're gonna get fired. Now, if you win, you still may get fired. That's the hard part. You see guys having success and getting fired. That's really tough to watch.

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'

Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.

The fact of the matter is that I'm never going to be Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Chase Elliott. You're not going to have that connection, the hardcore roots with the fans.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

The expectations some Americans put on me is too much, is what I would say. But I don't take it that way. I know no one means harm to me like that or wanting to put too much pressure on me.

The thing about Prince Harry is that he has no choice. He's not some egotistical rock star who wants loads of attention. That is his life. He didn't ask for it, but he just has to deal with it.

Why are people so harsh on actors?