Quotes About Expectations

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Jerry Seinfeld, he was doing Letterman show all the time, so he kind of had an excuse, that people know the jokes already. He didn't have time to do stand-up. A guy like me, I have no excuses.

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.