Quotes About Expectations

I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

I don't want to sign something just because everyone is looking forward to what I sign next. When I take up a project, I am all in to deliver the best I can with sincerity and honesty.

I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

I loved 'Funny Lady' for whatever reason. People say they didn't know I could sing and dance. Well, nobody ever asks me - it's always, 'Punch this guy.'

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

It has to be good to live in Singapore because otherwise, nobody will stand for it.

People have made me so big now, which I never thought I can be as a female singer.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body - it's more athletic.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because you know I'm a soul singer. Don't ask me to come in and rap. And don't ask me to come in and sing pop.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

I have to believe in myself, set goals for myself, set expectations for myself, and continue to work for those goals every single day.

When you play with a big club, you need to get results every single day, even more when a homegrown player goes into the first team. It's not easy.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

My mother has been pressurising me to get married every single day.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.