Quotes About Expectations

I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

The pressure is hard. You get - the world is only watching every four years, and I think lots of people feel like they have to win in that time frame.

It's funny when people don't know you and they meet you for the first time and think you're so great. When fans know you for more than three or four times the magic is gone.

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

The idea that marriage has to be for all time - that I don't understand.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time.

If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.