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Quotes About Expectations

There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.
~ Donald J. Carty
That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.
~ Dwayne Hickman
We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?
~ Eda LeShan
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.
~ Elisabeth Rohm
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.
~ Evangeline Lilly
I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.
~ Jane Horrocks
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
~ Jeremy Irons
I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.
~ Joel Plaskett
Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
~ Laura Prepon
I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
~ Louie Anderson
I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.
~ Louis C. K.
My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.
~ Mark Martin
As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'
~ Mia Hamm
Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.
~ Michelle Wie
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
~ Morgan Brittany
Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
~ Jeanne Moreau
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
~ Joni Mitchell
Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.
~ Josh Radnor
There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.
~ Justin Lin
To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball. I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball.
~ Mo'ne Davis
write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.
~ Nicholas Sparks