Quotes About Expectations

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

I mean, if I could score 40 every game, then I would score 40 every game. But I think I cannot score 40 every game, so I'm gonna pass a little bit, too.

I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.

Being in the limelight with 'Glee,' I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

We are under no illusions that we have no given right to win things, but winning the FA Cup is not enough.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Everyone has images in their mind of what to expect from different groups.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

I never thought that I would become Nia Sharma. I never imagined I would end up earning this much money. I never thought I would earn this much in my entire life.

I never imagined myself making these big movies and being married and having kids.

I'm a comic book writer, so I work with a lot of artists. Sometimes, you get art back, and you're like, 'Oh, no.' Sometimes, you get art back and you're like, 'That's exactly what I imagined in my head,' and you're happy about that.