Quotes About Expectations

One of the most overwhelming things about dating is imagining going on an entire dinner date for an evening with someone you don't even know you have chemistry with yet.

When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.

Of course El Clasico is a great night, but I don't have an overwhelming desire to play in that game.

It's not overwhelming or shocking to play against the SEC, like most fans think.

When you look out at somewhere like Hammersmith Apollo and all those people have come just to see you on that night, it's overwhelming. You can't rest on your laurels. This tour's got to be better than the last one because I want people to come to the next one.

Yes, we as actors are so appreciative of our fans, but there comes a point where, if we've been working all day, we don't owe 100 percent of ourselves to anyone, and that shouldn't be expected.

I've learned that you don't want to expect anything or feel that you're owed anything.

A lot of people just kind of act as if it's their God-given right to be overpaid and on TV, but it just feels like there has to be a level of like: 'This is an exciting thing to be doing.' It's not just something that we're owed.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

While winning may not always personify the Big Apple, attitude certainly does. Players get called to the carpet. So do coaches, managers, executives, owners, and anyone associated with them. No one is safe.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.

In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people's journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.

That's one thing that's been aimed at me since I was 17: a lack of pace.

I would love to be able to do the pace that people used to do decades ago, where you'd make a record a year, or something was wrong with you.

What did winning a Grammy do for me? It made me want to get rid of my Grammy, pack it away, and never see it again. It made me not want to speak to anyone who wanted to speak about my Grammy.

People seem to think that, by the time you hit 45 or 50, you might as well just pack it in and call it a day.

Women want to be entertained. They want value for money from a man. You have to have the whole package.

I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.

Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you feel you deserve them the most, but they're there. I believe it. You should too. Because now I'm with someone who makes me grow every day. His name is Netflix.

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

I always idealized the mainstream cartoonists and the packed schedule they worked under.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

Real is when you go to training camp. Real is when you finally get the guys in pads. Real is those guys in that locker room setting those goals because we have some guys now that can set goals and expectations for those guys in the locker room because, ultimately, who are the Cleveland Browns but those guys in that locker room.