Quotes About Expectations

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

People correlate your skill with a hit or flop.

When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.

At all times, there's discussion about the percentage of body fat I have, how I look on the ice and about how much skin a certain costume is showing.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.

There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.