Quotes About Expectations

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.

I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.

I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

When you make the biggest film in the history of Bollywood, 'Ra.One,' and get so much flak, it drains you... haunts you for years.

While childless couples are constantly asked, 'Why they are not having children,' my husband and I are bombarded with a different set of questions: 'Why would you have so many?' or 'Are you done having children?'

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.

We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'

Why was I considering retirement at the age of just 25? Because I really wasn't having fun on court.

In Bollywood, once an actor becomes a fairly established name, he or she usually starts taking things for granted.

If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me based on what I've done, then I can't tell them anything more than what they don't know already.

The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.

That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they going to respond?

As a head coach, you're on two lists. You're the guy that might get fired, or you're the guy who might go somewhere.

The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach.

Obviously if your head coach expects more of you, you bring it to the table.

Working as a head coach always seemed to be a bit short term. You lose five games and you're out of a job.

If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.

I'm always the favorite heading into fights. My accomplishments don't get credit because I'm supposed to win.

I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, 'You've gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You've gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.' But I can't act like that.