Quotes About Expectations

The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself.

When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys.

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.

This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

There are parts of me where during my initial ascent to the main roster, I thought I was ready. Not that I wasn't ready for the main roster, but maybe at times I wasn't as ready as I thought.

I've been blessed. I've had a fortunate, successful career in the NFL. It's been longer than I initially expected when I came into the NFL.

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

I disliked people calling me a chocolate hero initially, as I wanted to explore other genres of acting.

When you're younger, you have three or four bad results and you worry about everything. You worry about injuries, because they always seem to be your best players.

People are right to question what I've got left and how I am going to be after the injuries and defeats.

A lot of people are blowing Shogun's fight with Mark Coleman out of proportion. He was coming off an injury, and he gassed early on in his first fight back.

Nothing is certain in a sportsperson's life. There can be an injury, performance can go down, others can do better than me.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.

I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.