Quotes About Expectations

If people liked seeing me in loverboy roles, I don't intend to break that.

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me.

I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-mom.

I would say the hardest part in the Latino world is approval from your parents. It's such an intense thing.

People tell me I'm doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I'm not happy with, and I think, 'Let's go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it's so much more fun.'

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

There are no expectations on a 40-year-old man. All I have to worry about is intensity, and things will take care of themselves. I don't have to worry about championships, all-star games, contracts. I can just walk on the court and play.

Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there's no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

Donors do not reward good intentions.

I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it's just not forever. You can have the best of intentions.

You need to kind of have a rubric, how you want to be, how you want to interact in this industry.

It's always been like this since the beginning of time. You interact with one female or somebody that people will think you'll cute with and everybody either assumes that you're dating or they want you date. It's just how it all works.

I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.

I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers.

It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

My deepest challenge has been an internal one. It's allowing success to take over by focusing on how many Twitter followers I have or what people are saying about me online, or just feeling like no matter how much success I get, it's not enough.

I know that leading Ferrari carries with it a high responsibility, but the pressure is more from the outside rather than internal.

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate.

In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.