Quotes About Expectations

I am aware of how many young girls are out there looking for inspiration and for role models and I want to make sure I don't let them down.

We ask these young girls to grow up too fast. In the society where they grow up, they are asked to grow up too fast, and everything pushes them in that direction. The media creates pressure.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

For some reason, young girls, they don't want the guy that's just there.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

Women and young girls are constantly judging themselves by standards that aren't real.

I'm so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren't allowed to have their 20s. It's all being documented.

Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.

Young girls - like friends of my daughter's - always ask if we do prom dresses, and we do dresses that would be lovely, but £2,000 isn't realistic for most girls. The Debenhams collection will hopefully be great for that sort of event because the price point is much lower.

Girls are told they're not skinny enough, or they hear, 'She's old. She's boring. We've had her. She's not tiny anymore.' A lot of people don't take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.

As a woman, sometimes we stress on always being of the moment, and that is a lot of pressure, especially for young girls.

I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I think it was tough being a young guy, especially in L.A. All the people looking at you and we had a big responsibility over there.

When I was a young kid, I never expected to play for Arsenal or England.

When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.

In the beginning, I thought the Federer comparisons were cool, but after a while, I wasn't happy with it. It's not the best thing you can hear as you're trying to develop, as it puts extra pressure on a young kid.

Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understanding of the nuances. And in a way, that was a bad thing. Because it kind of programmed me to believe that if you're going have a restaurant, this is what you need to do, and this is the way it's going to be run.

As a young kid, you never really understand what it takes to be a footballer: what it's like after you've won or what the changing room is like after a loss, or, as an individual, have you played a good game? Have you played a bad game?

When you're a young kid and you come into the NHL, you're given money and fame, to an extent, especially in Boston.

For a young kid to be expected at 15, 16, 17 years old to know what to do - it's hard. It's a tough ask.

I think we felt like we'd done so much as young kids that we didn't know how to top ourselves. We were like, 'Is this where it ends? Is this as good as it gets? Maybe we're done. Throw in the towel.'

When I was a young lady, I never fantasized about getting married.

Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.