Quotes About Expectations

What a chicken I was. I couldn't bear any aspect of living. Especially that old custom: that you have to live a better life than everyone else.

To me it's also talking about how it's okay to have your own identity in the face of all this pressure to have some other identity.

Despite women's experience or knowledge of sexual violence, despite whatever is going on in their marriages and how their husbands behave, women are expected to engage with enthusiasm in sex. [Women] have to make a separation between the sex in which they 'let go' and become enthusiastic and the rape they experienced last night or the pornographic advert they saw on the underground this morning. What is required is either a mind/body split or an eroticising of the oppression itself.

But when you decide to get married, it's important to realise that marriage is a partnership. And that sometimes you're better off not being crazy in love with the person you're married to.

Maybe you're looking for the kind of man who doesn't exist, Ash. You want somebody who'll fit your life perfectly and that'll never happen. There has to be a bit of give and take, you know.' 'I know,' Ash said sharply. 'But I don't want to do all of the giving and none of the taking.

Men always say the most important thing in a woman is a sense of humor. You know what that means? He's looking for someone to laugh at his jokes.

If you're as intelligent as I think, you'll back away and give him time to examine his true desires. He's so busy fulfilling everyone else's; he has no idea what he wants." "I've been under the impression that he wanted me," Billie said coldly, "or I wouldn't be here.

How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We alone: animals, so far as we can see, are unaware of time, untroubled. Time is their natural environment. Why do we sense that it is not ours?

You only find yourself bending over backwards when the bar is too low.

Because isn't that what the holidays are all about— letting your family make you wish you were an orphan?

Dee-Ann came back in the hallway and both men stopped and stared at her. "Just came back to get some water out of the fridge." When neither man said anything to her, she asked, "Somethin' wrong?" Ric stepped forward. "How many children do you want?" Lock grabbed Ric by his hair and yanked him back, slamming him into the front door. "Ow!

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.