Quotes About Expectations

I was always quite anxious, but when I left uni and started to have serious relationships with men I became incredibly insecure about the fact that I was my parents' daughter.

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to be really popular, but when that happened, there was so much pressure to keep it going.

I am very insecure because that's how I have played cricket. Since Under-14, I was told, 'If you don't perform, you will be dropped.' I have started living with this system.

I am not an insecure person at heart, but I am also aware that I am not as good looking as an actress is expected to be.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

I've always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.

If, for people, Instagram is just entertainment, for me, it's an additional burden.

There's a lot of pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, have enough Instagram followers.

I don't think life is this Instagram fairytale everyone makes it out to be. Life is super heavy.

Each actor is different and not everyone is looking for the same thing. For instance, I have never worried that people have to think of me in a certain way or have to accept me when I return to screen after a sabbatical.

My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.

My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.

Benitez is a coach with high expectations of his players, he demands a lot and I like that. He knows how to communicate with his players and he is intelligent.

I well remember the pride that my parents felt when my brother and I went up to Cambridge, but I also know many friends that I grew up with - brilliant, funny, acutely intelligent girls - who never fulfilled their potential.