Quotes About Expectations

The work that I've gotten in the hiatuses seems to indicate that I will have a little more work after 'Mad Men' than I did when I was scraping by while I was temping in New York, but who knows? People very easily could be like, 'Meh, we're done with that. We've got Jon Hamm. We're good without the weird one with glasses.'

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not professional.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

False expectations take away joy.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

After having your first child, it's a massive shock to the system. I work in an industry where people judge you and the way you look, and you always want to put your best foot forward when you can.

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

For me, I want to be scoring goals. That's what I'm judged on, and that's what I judge myself on.

My parents felt judged by me.

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what you wear. People care so much about that these days.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

The crazy thing about independent filmmaking is that you're so judged on your first film. It almost needs to be one of those groundbreaking 'I've-never-seen-that-before'-type movies.

In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

The fact is, as all we strikers know, we tend to get judged just on the number of goals.

I don't mind being judged or pressure being put on myself.

You will always be judged as a Liverpool player but, as a captain, you will be judged on what you win, basically. If you're doing well, and the team is winning everything, you become a very good captain.

You know, when men perform in combat, they're expected to perform well. That's part of being masculine. And when one of them doesn't perform well, that man alone has let the team down, and that man alone is judged for it.

Runs are important, don't get me wrong, but it will be wickets that I will be judged on.