Quotes About Expectations

I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.

You can't please everybody; everybody knows that, but at the same time all you can do is control what you can control and that's going out there as a player every single night and giving my all.

There's no expectations at all. Every single person that turns up to a show, you really appreciate them. Every single radio interview you do - everything.

I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

Every single thing you do, you don't really have expectations.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.

Working men, in particular, face a world they did not expect, jobs are hard to find and pay badly meaning they often can't provide single-handedly for their families, as their fathers and grandfathers did. That alone causes a loss of pride.

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

It used to be OK to have two or three songs out a year - and those are your singles. Now, they don't want that. They're like, 'OK, I heard that. Next!'

Pavarotti is not judged on how he sings in the shower. People wait until he gets on stage.

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

It will not get better than Sir Alex Ferguson. It just won't.

Sir Alex is so consistent with his management. He manages each person differently, but you know exactly where you are with him. You know exactly what is required.

When I was 21, I did not have that much pressure. I was sitting down on the bench... you know... cleaning Sir Vivian Richards's boots or doing something... getting ready to play international cricket.

The fear of letting people down - that's the drive. Sir Alex, I think, if he was brave enough to say it, he would say the same, but in his eyes, the motivating factor is that you want to be the best.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.

Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'

I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.

I was the seventh in the family. By the time I came along, one brother and two sisters had already become teachers, and this was the sort of path carved out for the rest of the family.

People often expect that I should know a lot of things because I'm black. I don't really explain it to people, but it's like, I'm from Australia, my Mum's Aussie, and I grew up with five other Aussie brothers and sisters.

I believe real brothers or sisters should not do a film together. People tend to compare. They don't think twice before saying anything.

I have two sisters, so there were three girls in my family, and my dad always wanted a boy, so I was always like the boy of the family.